The prediction, in brief:

Bringing together document management, digital libraries and the Web is an important goal.

Predictor: Masinter, Larry

Prediction, in context:

Larry Masinter, at the time a principal engineer at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, made the following remarks in a research presentation at INET ’95, the Internet Society’s 1995 International Networking Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 27-30. Masinter had worked in the area of document-management-system architecture since 1988, he was involved with the Web standards groups from their inception, and he had been active in research in regard to digital libraries since 1993. He says:”Most digital library projects are exploring ways of making their libraries available to the entire Internet community, usually in spite of the perceived limitations of the current suite of Web protocols and standards. As enterprise boundaries become more flexible with corporate outsourcing, dynamic enterprise construction and the increasing use of the Internet in the commercial sector, there is growing pressure to blur the boundary between an enterprise and workgroup repositories and those accessible on the Internet. And as companies and workgroups build larger repositories of archival quality documents – beyond those useful only momentarily – the distinction between an enterprise document management repository and a digital library is being blurred. There is an opportunity to merge the interfaces for systems originally intended for document management, digital libraries or deployment in the Web, in a way that will allow for several kinds of synergy. More specifically, there are several near-term opportunities. For example, those charged with building and maintaining an Internet presence for an organization are discovering that, with the growth of their site, they have a large collection of documents with interdependencies, and need tools to help them manage their sites. One possible scenario is to use a tool originally designed as a document management system as the back-end to a Web site. The version management, check-in and check-out, access control features of the document management system can be used by the Web development staff, while the results are exported to the world over the Internet. Some explicit support for this kind of operation has been announced by a handful of document management companies. Bringing together document management, digital libraries and the Web is an important goal.”

Date of prediction: June 1, 1995

Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information

Subtopic: Libraries/Databases

Name of publication: ISOC INET '95 (conference)

Title, headline, chapter name: Document Management, Digital Libraries and the Web

Quote Type: Direct quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.isoc.org/HMP/PAPER/243/html/paper.html

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney