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In the context of this particular type of document, there is a necessity to share
the results of study, remarks, comments and interpretation among the members of a
relatively small and geographically dispersed scientific community. A possible solution
is to develop a tool for the management and rationalisation of individual work.
In our approach to the problem, we have taken as a theoretical basis recently
developed concepts related to digital documents, focusing chiefly on the programmable
aspect of a digital document. Taking into account that the documents in question can
be considered as digital documents (over which it is possible to act), we have worked
on the modelling of contributions that can be added to these objects of study. This
has led us to a model that describes the annotations made on documents collected in
a digital repository.
The program implementation, which is still to be executed, must be situated in
a full Web approach in order to satisfy the conditions of collaborative work and to
remain easy to use with the help of the Web navigator.
Some questions that will certainly appear in the implementation phase are not
accounted for by the proposed model, such as how to apply a modification starting
from one sequence (the annotation that proposes that one sequence be replaced by
another) to the whole document, or should all users have the same profile and same
possibilities to act within the documents.
In this sense, the proposed model leaves many questions to be answered, but the
direction in which we are pointing seems rather promising.
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