Document Computing, 1998 Technologies for Managing Electronic Document Collections The Information Retrieval Series, Vol. 5

Document Computing: Technologies for Managing Electronic DocumentCollections discusses the important aspects of document computing and recommends technologies and techniques for document management, with an emphasis on the processes that are appropriate when computers are used to create, access, and publish documents. This book includes descriptions of the nature of documents, their components and structure, and how they can be represented; examines how documents are used and controlled; explores the issues and factors affecting design and implementation of a document management strategy; and gives a detailed case study. The analysis and recommendations are grounded in the findings of the latest research.
Document Computing: Technologies for Managing Electronic DocumentCollections brings together concepts, research, and practice from diverse areas including document computing, information retrieval, librarianship, records management, and business process re-engineering. It will be of value to anyone working in these areas, whether as a researcher, a developer, or a user.
Document Computing: Technologies for Managing Electronic DocumentCollections can be used for graduate classes in document computing and related fields, by developers and integrators of document management systems and document management applications, and by anyone wishing to understand the processes of document management.

1. Document Lifecycle.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 What is a Document?.- 1.3 Using Documents.- 1.4 Why Document Management?.- 1.5 Document Management Solutions.- 1.6 An Example.- 2. Electronic Document Description.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Document Constituents.- 2.3 Document Description Requirements.- 2.4 Document Description Languages.- 2.5 Evaluation.- 3. Document Production.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Editing Structured Documents.- 3.3 Document Conversion.- 3.4 Metadata Assignment.- 3.5 Document Creation.- 3.6 Document Import.- 3.7 Document Modification.- 3.8 Document Integration.- 4. Document Delivery.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Delivery Units.- 4.3 Delivery Examples.- 4.4 Delivery Requirements and Answer Components.- 4.5 Answer Organization.- 4.6 Formatting Answers for Delivery.- 5. Document Publication.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Building Access Paths.- 5.3 Registration.- 5.4 Access Paths and Labels.- 5.5 Access by Content.- 5.6 Access by Metadata.- 5.7 Access by Structure.- 5.8 Access by Navigation.- 5.9 Versions.- 5.10 Storage.- 6. Document Discovery.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Access Methods.- 6.3 Query Language Requirements.- 6.4 Query Languages.- 6.5 Document Matching.- 6.6 Interactive Document Discovery.- 6.7 Document Filtering.- 6.8 Distributed Document Discovery.- 7. Document Removal.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 What to Remove.- 7.3 Types of Removal.- 7.4 Approaches to Removal.- 7.5 Archiving.- 8. Document Flow.- 8.1 Introduction.- 8.2 Processes.- 8.3 People.- 8.4 Systems.- 8.5 Recommendations.- 9. Case Study: Managing Legislation.- 9.1 Introduction.- 9.2 Document Description.- 9.3 Document Production.- 9.4 Document Delivery.- 9.5 Document Publication.- 9.6 Document Discovery.- 9.7 Document Removal.- 9.8 Document Control.- References.