A review of the field of CSCW with respect to digital libraries; covers both library and information science and computer science.

One of the potentially confusing aspects of evaluation within computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) is that there are many activities one might wish to carry out at different times that evaluate socio-technical systems. I identify five ideal type...

a general framework for the construction of groupware and CSCW applications.

In CSCW environments data and operations can be shared by users and/or they can have their own defined data and operations which may not be shared by other users.