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Demo: DAV Explorer and WebDAV

Student: Joachim Feise

Advisor: Richard N. Taylor

Abstract: Collaboration among teams in geographically distant locations is increasingly common in today's workplace. However, managing this kind of collaboration is a difficult and cumbersome task. The most common tool is the e-mail notification to keep the teams informed and to distribute the workload among the teams. Documents are passed back and forth between the teams, akin to "passing the torch". Dissatisfaction with this situation led to the formation of the IETF WebDAV working group in 1996 to identify the key issues encountered in remote authoring using the Web. Subsequently, the working group developed the WebDAV standards as extensions to the HTTP protocol to allow Web client programs to perform remote authoring operations. These extensions provide key authoring functionalities, e.g., overwrite protection, metadata management, and versioning. DAV Explorer is a WebDAV client program that provides the functionality to manage remote document collections using the WebDAV standards. DAV Explorer has collaboration support using a lock-download-work-upload-unlock process. The program also provides WebDAV metadata management capabilities.

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