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Evolvable Documents – an Initial Conceptualization

Authors:
Marek Suchánek
Robert Pergl

Keywords: Electronic documents; Evolvability; Modularity; Conceptualization; Separation of Concerns.

Abstract:
We may say that documents are one of the cornerstones of our civilization. Information technologies enabled unparalleled flexibility and power for retrieving, storing, and sharing documents. However, in a daily documents-intensive job, one needs to deal with severe complications of documents evolvability and reusability of their parts. Maintaining consistency across several documents and their versions is typically a tedious and error-prone task. Similar evolvability challenges have been dealt with in software engineering and principles such as modularity, loose coupling, and separation of concerns have been studied and applied. There is a hypothesis that they may help in the domain of evolvable documents, as well. We perceive devising a conceptualization of documents as the first step in this endeavor. In this paper, we present a generic conceptualization leading to evolvable documents applicable in any documentation domain, and we propose next steps.

Pages: 39 to 44

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018

Publication date: February 18, 2018

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3557

ISBN: 978-1-61208-612-5

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from February 18, 2018 to February 22, 2018