Role-based Access Control in Online Authoring and Publishing Systems vs. Document Hierarchy

Abstract

How to structure diverse (documentation) information sources of an enterprise and how to arrange a workflow with access control are two important issues for online authoring and publishing systems. Aim of this paper is to describe a solution for both problems, which is based on department structure, subject areas, and roles in an enterprise. Our approach will be introduced by presenting the DAPHNE system. DAPHNE provides possibilities to support collaborative authoring on a document hierarchy that reflects the diverse branches of an enterprise's organization structure and allows diverse (documentation) information sources of an enterprise to be well structured. The role-based access control (RBAC) mechanism implemented within DAPHNE is supported by the document hierarchy as well.