1

Bringing DLs Closer to Life

A Trip to Italy

2

Trip Preparations: Gathering Materials

3

Mix To-Do Lists and Info Gathering

4

Trip Preparations: Live Support Page

5

Just-In-Time Landsat Tile Server

6

Information Tiles

7

Scale-Driven Document Transformation

8

Intermittent Interaction With Home Base

9

Remote Live Page Update

10

Technologies of Scenario Increased use of services. Easy inclusion of new services:

Services are the next frontier Use of information appliances

– Document transformation to accommodate varying resources

– Intermittent remote/base synchronization

Just-in-time information delivery (information tiles) Document technologies

– Liveness in document portions (document behavior):» Easy creation» Remote (multi-user?) modification via appliances» Include search over content history (e.g. archived Java output)

– Larger size/more structure

Microsoft realm?

Views on Document Objects

Catalogview

Catalogview

Dialogview

Dialogview

USMARCview

USMARCview

atAGlanceview

atAGlanceview

doc.atAGlance.summary

Property/behavior access is delegated to the appropriate

view object at runtime

View objs are attached and detached from doc objects dynamically.

Desired view specified explicitly

12

Orbital vs. Geological Document Model

Orbital Geological (MVC)

User’s View Model • Composition• Insertion mode

• Lens• Global

• Opacity• Incompatibilities

• Security• Sticky views• Privileged views

• View’s search behavior• Self-indexing• Search-transparent• Own search engine

Implementation

Maintainer’s View Model

13

Digital Physical World

OnlineAuctions

OCR

FederalExpress

Print OnDemand

InfoExpress

DigitalWorld

Physical World