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Foil 97 Educational Glossary VI

From General NPAC Foils-B starting June97(PowerPoint) General Research -- June-December 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox


MOO: Rather controversial form of asynchronous collaboration supporting rooms and a simple "virtual world" view with often text supplying illusion of a more familiar virtual interaction space
Threaded Discussion Space: Hierarchically organized asynchronous collaboration with (text) messages from a chat room, bulletin board or mail interaction
Lotus Notes is a document database supporting asynchronous collaboration and offering a web front end. Offers a JDBC/ODBC interface and so can be viewed as a particular form of a relational database with tools to support collaboration. Has security features



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