Engineering Document Models

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Engineering Document Models

Definitions

Why do you care?

Outline

Survey of Document Models

Model: a sequence of typed pages

Model: a sequence of page images

Model: a tree of components

Aside: DTDs are document models in another sense

Model: both structure and layout

ODA processing model

ODA processing model

Model: layers of content and behaviors (MVD)

Model: a vector of word weights

Model: a directed graph

Model: what a URL points to

Model: A document is a presentation

Summary: many models

Operations

Focus: Models for Document Management Systems (DMS)

Concepts

WebDAV Document Model

DMA Document Model

DMA 1.0 Document Model Example

DMA Versioning

Issues

Discussion

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Other information:
Document Models Talk Presented at Stanford DB/DIGLIB seminar, December 4, 1998