Engineering Document Models
Steve Cousins
Xerox PARC
Abstract
Whenever we design a document system, we have an engineering document
model in our heads that strongly influences the design. This talk
will survey a number of document models on which important systems
have been based, from early models (a document is a sequence of ASCII
characters) to relatively complex models in document management
systems (WebDAV, DMA). I will describe what I believe to be the
state-of-the art models in use today, and what problems continue to be
grappled with.
Biography
Steve Cousins is a member of the research staff in the Information
Sciences and Technology Laboratory at Xerox PARC. His research
interests are in digital libraries, distributed user interfaces,
information visualization, and personal information management.
Dr. Cousins received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford
University in 1997. His disseration research was on user interfaces
for digital libraries, and was done as part of the Stanford Digital
Library project. Steve received B.S. and M.S. degrees in
Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis. Before
going to Stanford in 1992, he was a research associate in Medical
Informatics at Washington University.