Managing software artifacts on the Web with Labyrinth

ABSTRACT

Software developers are increasingly exploiting the Web as a document management system. However, the Web has some limitations, since it is not aware of the structure and semantics associated to pieces of information (e.g., the fact that a document is a requirement specification) and of the semantics of relationships between pieces of information (e.g., the fact that a requirement specification document may be associated to some design specification document). In the Labyrinth project we enhance the capabilities of the Web as a document management system by means of a semantic model (called schema, in analogy with database schemas), which is associated to Web documents. This model is itself a Web document and can be accessed and navigated through a simple Web browser.

REFERENCES

• 1: F. Cattaneo, A. Fuggetta, L. Lavazza, G. Valetto, Labyrinth: Schema-based Distributed Document Management on the Web, CEFRIEL Technical report - RT 99002.<http://www.cefriel.it/Se/Projects/Labyrinth>
• 2: G. Cugola , E. Di Nitto , A. Fuggetta, Exploiting an event-based infrastructure to develop complex distributed systems, Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering, p.261-270, April 19-25, 1998, Kyoto, Japan
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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
      K.6.3 Software Management
          Subjects: Software development

Additional Classification:
  F. Theory of Computation
  F.3 LOGICS AND MEANINGS OF PROGRAMS

  H. Information Systems
  H.2 DATABASE MANAGEMENT
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.5 On-line Information Services
          Subjects: Web-based services
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces
          Subjects: Web-based interaction

General Terms:
Design, Documentation, Languages, Management, Performance, Theory

Keywords:
Internet technologies, document management systems, semntic models for the Web, software repositories