Everything about WebDAV

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: WebDAVA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Migration to WebDAV in Belle II ExperimentInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: WebDAVThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: WebDAV: IEFT standard for collaborative authoring on the WebCited 61 times
5. Go sideways: CalDAVA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: ICalendarA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• WebDAV: IEFT standard for collaborative authoring on the Web

  E.J. Whitehead, M. Wiggins · 1998 · IEEE Internet Computing · 61 citations

• World Wide Web distributed authoring and versioning (WebDAV)

  E. James Whitehead · 1997 · StandardView · 20 citations

• The WebDAV property design

  E. James Whitehead, Yaron Y. Goland · 2004 · Software: Practice and Experience · 8 citations

• WebDAV: versatile collaboration multiprotocol

  J. Whitehead · 2005 · IEEE Internet Computing · 6 citations

• Collaborative Authoring on the Web: Introducing WebDAV

  E. James Whitehead · 1998 · Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology · 5 citations

• Extending WebDAV With Multiple-Granularity Locking

  C. Papadopoulos · 2008 · IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans · 2 citations

• Instant certificate revocation and publication using WebDAV

  David W. Chadwick, Sean Antony, Rune Bjerk · 2010 · Journal of Computer Security · 2 citations

• Development of a WebDAV-based Smartphone Collaborative Application

  Hong-Chang Lee, Bo-Hyeon Kim, Myung-Joon Lee · 2011 · The Journal of the Korean Institute of Information and Communication Engineering · 2 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Migration to WebDAV in Belle II Experiment

  Silvio Pardi, Takanori Hara, Michel Hernandez Villanueva · 2024 · EPJ Web of Conferences · 1 citations

• Evolving StoRM WebDAV: Delegation of file transfers to NGINX and support for SciTags

  Federica Agostini, Luca Bassi, Jacopo Gasparetto · 2025 · EPJ Web of Conferences · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• WebDAVLisa Dusseault · 2003

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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