The goal of the Electronic Circulation Folder is to support cooperation within and across organizations without imposing more rigidity than really needed. We provide with the Electronic Circulation Folder the same simplicity as the physical circulation folder but with all the power brought by interconnected computers in terms of speed, distance and support. In addition, we provide the possibility of nomadic working.
Documents physically migrate when required.
For instance when a document originally stored behind a firewall is needed by a user involved in the next step. In this case the system will automatically migrate the document in a place accessible by the user. Different concurrency control schemes will allow co-operative work on the document set. As the document maturity evolves, different concurrency control schemes should be provided. Nomadic operations are supported by decentralizing control and data whenever possible.