A confederation of tools for capturing and accessing collaborative activity

摘要: This paper presents a confederation of tools, called Coral, that combine to support the real-time capture and subsequent access informal collaborative activities. The tools provide means initiate digital multimedia recordings, variety methods index those ways retrieve indexed material in other settings. current system emerged from convergence WhereWereWe work, Tivoli LiveBoard application, Inter-Language Unification distributed-object programming infrastructure. We are working with specific user community application domain, which has helped us shape particular, demonstrably useful, configuration get extensive real-world experience them. domain involves frequent discussion decision-making meetings later captured records produce accurate documentation. Several aspects Coral--the architecture confederation, infrastructure--are described.