WorkWare: WWW-based chronological document organizer

To cope with constantly increasing use of digital documents, we developed WorkWare, a tool which integrates, shares, and organizes documents such as e-mail, news, HTMLs, and scheduled events. WorkWare provides multiple ways to view and organize shared documents through WWW browsers. The paper focuses on the views to organize documents chronologically. In one of the views called the calendar view, links between dates, schedules, and document contents are automatically extracted and shown in a calendar. This view offers an episodic search and temporal push interfaces to help users access desired documents. In another view called the stack index view, documents are aligned with their latest accessed time for each user. To create those views, natural language processing and data mining techniques are used. Users can directly capture documents into WorkWare from editors, mail/news readers, Windows desktops, and WWW browsers. Captured documents are shared as XML files in a server.