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labels for contributions, labels for references (directed links) between contributions,
and may constrain links with respect to their sources and targets. Supporting
communities in evolving their own discourse grammars has been a key issue in the
design of Zeno.
4.3.2
Zeno Concepts
As a consequence, Zeno distinguishes three kinds of objects: Sections to tailor the
settings for an e-discourse, articles as units of a communication (contributions), and
links as directed relations between articles or even sections.
Moderators specify the readers, authors, and co-editors of the section, its discourse
grammar, a style sheet to control the presentation, and plugged-in functionality (for
mapping, awareness, polling, etc).
Fig. 6.
The search view in the overview section of a spatial decision making discourse in Zeno
An article has a title, usually a note (plain text or html), and possibly document
attachments. From its author it may get a label to indicate its pragmatic (or
ontological) role in the discourse (e.g. issue, option, criterion, argument, decision,
summary, question, comment), and it may receive an additional qualifier from the
