AS/NZS 4167.1:1994

Specifies a client-server type model in accordance with the distributed-office-application model, specifies functions and services provided by document filing and retrieval (DFR) servers, specifies a DFR model for managing documents and groups of documents, and specifies the DFR abstract service using the principles established by the abstract service definition conventions. This Standard is identical with and has been reproduced from ISO/IEC 10166-1:1991.

This part of ISO/IEC 10166 specifies the Document Filing and Retrieval Abstract Service that enables a user to communicate with a remote Document Filing and Retrieval server (DFR-Server) in order to access a remote document store.This part of ISO/IEC 10166- specifies a client-server type model in accordance with the Distributed-Office-Application Model [ISO/IEC 10031-1];- specifies functions and services provided by Document Filing and Retrieval servers;- specifies a specific Document Filing and Retrieval model for managing documents and groups of documents;- specifies the Document Filing and Retrieval Abstract Service suing the principles established by the Abstract Service Definition Conventions (ISO/IEC 10021-3);- specifies the usage of other services.ISO/IEC 10166 serves the following important fields of application:- supports large capacity document storage for use by multiple users in a distributed system;- supports ordered filing and multi-key retrieval of documents;- supports structured organization of groups of documents;- supports storage an open-ended number of different document types;- supports referencing documents and groups;- support filing and referencing of documents outside of the document storage (for example, non-electronic hard copy documents);- support the association of attributes to documents, groups, references and search result lists independent of the content;- supports storage, retrieval and deletion of documents of the document store whatever their content;- supports searching for, ordering, retrieval, and deletion of single documents or groups of documents using document attributes;- supports management of different versions of a document, including such concepts as "previous version", "next version" and "last version";- supports protection against unauthorized storage and retrieval of documents;- supports the control of concurrent access to DFR objects;

First published as Joint Standard AS/NZS 4167.1:1994.