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Integrated Management of Technical Documentation

The System SPRITE

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Jirka Hoppe

    1. Océ — Wissenschaftliches Forschungsinstitut AG, Zürich, Switzerland

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Part of the book series: Research Reports Esprit (ESPRIT, volume 1)

Part of the book sub series: Project 2001.SPRITE (SPRITE)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Requirements

      • Jirka Hoppe
      Pages 2-6

    3. Overview of the System

      • Jirka Hoppe
      Pages 7-10

  3. Functionality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Storage, Retrieval and Management of Documents

      • Lucy Hederman, Albert Hessels, Jirka Hoppe, Serge Seisen
      Pages 12-34

    3. Document Processing

      • Jirka Hoppe, Serge Seisen, Werner Winiger
      Pages 35-51

    4. Acquisition

      • Jochen Gloger, Boris Pasternak, Gabriel Gabrielides, Jane Howe, Pascal Lobbrecht, Nailja Luth et al.
      Pages 52-72

  4. Architectures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. System Architecture

      • Jirka Hoppe
      Pages 74-83

    3. Architecture of a Multimedia Document Database

      • Olga De Troyer, María José Briales de las Heras
      Pages 84-102

  5. Database Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Versioning of Technical Documents — Design and Implementation

      • Hans Weigand, Robert Meersman
      Pages 104-115

    3. Multiauthoring Aspects

      • María José Briales de las Heras
      Pages 116-126

    4. Extensibility in Object-Oriented Database Systems

      • Ling Liu, Robert Meersman
      Pages 127-149

    5. An Object-Oriented Active Data Dictionary to Support Database Evolution

      • Hans Weigand, Berrie Kremers
      Pages 150-167

    6. Storage Server

      • Jean-Yves Christine
      Pages 168-172

  6. Application Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. Layout and Logical Structure Recognition

      • Pascal Lobbrecht, Xavier Blanca, Luc Sonke
      Pages 174-189

    3. Scanning, Vectorization and Postprocessing

      • Jochen Gloger, Nailja Luth, Malte Timmermann
      Pages 190-205
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Writing documentation is an integral part of any technical product development. A significant amount of time is spent describing the product functionality, giving insights into technical details, providing maintenance instructions, specifying marketing information, writing user manuals, etc. As the creation of such documentation is generally a source of higher production costs, many large companies are realising the need to increase the efficiency of documentation handling. Simple documents consisting of only a few pages can be developed on simple systems. Basic components of such systems are an editor handling text and graphics, file storage, and a printer. Such configurations, however, are not sufficient to handle professional documentation as produced by larger companies. Detailed studies of technical documentation requirements have revealed that in particular the following functionality is not usually provided by such simple documentation systems: Technical documentation is often very large; documents having hundreds or even thousands of pages are not exceptional. Due to size and complexity, technical documentation is developed most often by a team of authors. A system for technical documentation has to provide functionality supporting the organisation of a group of authors. Technical documentation usually consists of many different documents combined into one large documentation for a particular product. The optimum organisation of the storage and retrieval of documents is crucial for the performance and acceptability of the system. The functionality offered by normal file systems is not adequate to organise complex systems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Océ — Wissenschaftliches Forschungsinstitut AG, Zürich, Switzerland

    Jirka Hoppe

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