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Challenges of the Future [15th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-3-0] Vienna (Austria) 17-20 September 1997
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In this paper we report on research in which the Internet is considered an environment for the storage and
retrieval of design knowledge. The nature of the net as a medium for the representation, storage and
accessing of design knowledge is reviewed and the attributes of the medium are analyzed. We elaborate on
the appropriateness of certain attributes of the technology as providing means for representing not only the
physical representations of design, but also their conceptual content. Furthermore the research demonstrates
that the embedding of design conceptual content in web-based representations provides a powerful
advantage for strengthening and expediting the processes of search and retrieval in design knowledge
bases.