Publishers’ Documentation Support System

Abstract

A documentation department in the publishing area of weekly journals was planning to store as much of their material as possible on computer media. The documentation department stored all articles of a selected set of newspapers and magazines in different folders. In most cases articles were copied and distributed among several folders. This was because they already had large sets of rubrics. An example would be that if a leading politician somehow attracted publicity, the documentation director would normally decide to store this news both in the personal file of the person and also in the folders of political parties, discussion reports of the House of Commons, etc. Some articles could wind up in as many as six or seven folders — reason enough to change from the traditional copy tradition to a multi-dimensional database with hypermedia facilities. You too many see reasons in your situation to migrate from linear (chronological) storage to this new method.