AS/NZS 4167.1:1994

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.