Document Publication

Abstract

Revision and reuse of documents is a central part of the document lifecycle. There is no point in producing a document if it cannot be found. If, for whatever reason, a document is to be reused, at some stage it must be made available somewhere for future reference—that is, published—and later found again— that is, retrieved. Retrieval is only possible if the document is labelled appropriately when it is published; and if the storage is organized such that, given knowledge of the label, the document can be located. Before a document can be retrieved, however, it must first be made known to the document management system, that is, registered; then labelled; and then stored according to the labels. In this chapter we explain registration, labelling, and storage.