| Abstract [eng] |
Documents are very important to modern organizations. The software dealing with the management of documents and files is electronic document management. Cost reductions and quality improvements are immediate incentives. Many universal document management systems are developed for a wide use in various areas of activities, but none of them satisfied the requirements of the publishing process. Therefore the main objective of this paper is to identify the functionality of a document management system to handle the documents in a book publishing process. The thesis contains basic concepts and technologies on a scale from file hierarchy based to document model based systems are classified and analysed from a document management perspective. Also a description of document management in book publishing process, including reviews of commercial applications, book industry standards and current best practice is given. In the second half of this paper an implementation of a document management system in a book publishing process is illustrated. It covers system architecture, quality evaluation as well as sugestion for a future research. |
