TeNDaX, a collaborative database-based real-time editor system A word-processing ’LAN-Party’ Stefania Leone1 , Thomas B. Hodel2 , Michael Boehlen3 , and Klaus R. Dittrch1 1
University of Zurich, Department of Informatics, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland {leone, dittrich}@ifi.unizh.ch 2 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Leonhardshalde 21, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland,
[email protected] 3 Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Piazza Domenicani 3, 39100 Bolzano, Italy,
[email protected] http://www.tendax.net
Abstract. This demo presents the TeNDaX System, a collaborative database-based real-time editor system. TeNDaX is a new approach for word-processing: documents (i.e. content and structure, tables, images etc.) are stored in a database in a semi-structured way. Since we store documents in a special way in the database we can provide collaborative editing and layouting, undo- and redo operations, business process definitions and execution within documents, security and awareness. During the whole document creation time process meta data is gathered automatically. This meta data can then be used for the TeNDaX dynamic folders, data linage, visual- and text mining and search. We demonstrate our TeNDaX editor system as a word-processing ’LANParty’: collaborative editing and layouting, business process definition and execution, local and global undo- and redo operations etc. with multiple editors and different operation systems. In a second step we demonstrate how one can use the created data and meta data for creating dynamic folders, visualizing data provenance, visual- and text mining and sophisticated search functionality.
