The paper presents the process of implementation of the BSCW cooperative platform (Basic Support for Cooperative Work) under the Linux operating system. In the last year, the major growth of the World Wide Web provides a great deal of potential in supporting cross-platform cooperative work within widely-dispersed working groups. The BSCW project at GMD1 is attempting to accomplish this potential through development of Web-based tools which provide cross-platform collaboration services to groups using existing Web technologies. The BSCW system uses the World Wide Web as a platform for communication and offers a number of functions for supporting collaboration in an educational environment. The basic idea is to provide the cooperation among partners with a shared workspace on the Internet. More than that, cooperation support tools for the working group are the main subject in the case of many educational projects. The team leader of the Comenius 2.1. European Project FISTE (A Future Way For In-Service Teacher Training Across Europe) decided to install a BSCW shared platform at Valahia University of Targoviste. This platform is available at http://bscw.ssai.valahia.ro.
World Wide Web, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Information sharing, BSCW.
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