BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
          ID:: STAN//CS-TR-97-1584
       ENTRY:: January 09, 1997
ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science
       TITLE:: Grassroots: a System Providing a Uniform Framework for
               Communicating, Structuring, Sharing Information, and
               Organizing People
        TYPE:: Technical Report
      AUTHOR:: Kamiya, Kenichi
      AUTHOR:: Roscheisen, Martin
      AUTHOR:: Winograd, Terry
        DATE:: January 1997
       PAGES:: 33
    ABSTRACT:: People keep pieces of information in diverse collections such
               as folders, hotlists, e-mail inboxes, newsgroups, and mailing
               lists. These collections mediate various types of
               collaborations including communicating, structuring, sharing
               information, and organizing people. Grassroots is a system
               that provides a uniform framework to support people's
               collaborative activities mediated by collections of
               information. The system seamlessly integrates functionalities
               currently found in such disparate systems as e-mail,
               newsgroups, shared hotlists, hierarchical indexes, hypermail,
               etc. Grassroots co-exists with these systems in that its
               users benefit from the uniform image provided by Grassroots,
               but other people can continue using other mechanisms, and
               Grassroots leverages from them. The current Grassroots
               prototype is based on an http-proxy implementation, and can
               be used with any Web browser. In the context of the design of
               a next-generation version of the Web, Grassroots demonstrates
               the utility of a uniform notification infrastructure.
       NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19970109]
         END:: STAN//CS-TR-97-1584