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The Share-Kit is a toolkit that allows upgrading single-user software to groupware. It creates data structures and primitives that can be used by various applications to export data to share with other applications. This results in a high degree of independence from the underlying system-environment. During the development of this toolkit we had to face the question of what specific semantic levels would be supported for the cooperation: The data of an operation (e.g. the construction of a simple graphic) can either be sent after the operation is finished or each input/transaction can be sent immediately. This issue influences every semantic level down to that of the exchanged data. Software developers will be able to structure the semantic levels of their existing and future software application releases to achieve flexible cooperation.
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Edlich, S. (1993). Software cooperation with the share-kit: Influences of semantic levels on the working efficiency. In: Grechenig, T., Tscheligi, M. (eds) Human Computer Interaction. VCHCI 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 733. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57312-7_71
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