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Understanding the role of documents in a hierarchical flow of work

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GROUP '97: Proceedings of the 1997 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work

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https://doi.org/10.1145/266838.266881

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Risoe National Lab, Roskilde, Denmark

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