The Snippet System - Fine-Granular Management of Documents and their Relationships

Kirsch, Laurent; Esch, Markus; Rothkugel, Steffen

doi:10.2316/p.2011.747-019

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“…The aim of the presented Snippet System is to provide new facilities for the creation and management of documents and in particular to overcome said limitations of existing systems [7]. Most importantly, it allows for the fine-granular reuse of documents, i.e., user-defined document excerpts can be included in several other documents with different instances being completely or partially synchronized among each other.…”

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The snippet system - Reusing and connecting documents

Kirsch

Botev

Rothkugel

2012

Seventh International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2012)

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This paper presents the Snippet System, a new operating system environment that aims at providing enhanced document management facilities. For this, the proposed system utilizes a novel document model based on finer-grained entities, so-called Snippets. These support Relations, which capture the context of individual document excerpts. Snippets furthermore enable a flexible reuse of documents, i.e., user-defined excerpts can be included in several other documents with only selected properties remaining synchronized between different instances. Moreover, dedicated mechanisms allow for the efficient retrieval of these instances and thus support the user in keeping track of reused excerpts and synced properties. While the Snippet System's concepts extend into the application and user interface layers, this paper focuses in particular on the design and prototypical implementation of its document model, describing how the reuse of document excerpts, the synchronization and retrieval of their different instances, and Relations are supported in a natural and scalable way.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The snippet system - Reusing and connecting documents

Kirsch

Botev

Rothkugel

2012

Seventh International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2012)

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“…Moreover, it enables dependencies between elements in the same but also different documents. While the Snippet Platform's concepts extend into the UI layer [8], [9], this paper discusses how it natively supports dynamic and interactive content in documents. Section II illustrates an advanced authoring process as enabled by the Snippet Platform.…”

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The Snippet Platform Architecture – Dynamic and Interactive Compound Documents

Kirsch

Botev

Rothkugel

2014

IJFCC

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Abstract-Compound documents in desktop environments face many issues and limitations in terms of modularity and genericity with regard to their representation and handling. The Snippet Platform natively supports highly dynamic and interactive compound documents. The contents of a document are not limited to combinations of traditional types like text, images, vector objects, or videos, but are completely generic and thus may even consist of fully-functional embedded applications. These can be operated in-place, enabling a higher level of interactivity. Moreover, complex dependencies within or in between documents are supported. The component-based architecture of the Snippet Platform allows for keeping these in a consistent working state. It realizes application software by an extensible set of functional modules that are designed to interoperate. These may also be combined for performing more advanced transformations on contents or defining more refined algorithmic dependencies. A fine-granular model, based on so-called Snippets instead of files, ensures the persistent representation of such compound documents and their dependencies. A working prototype, also discussed in this paper, incorporates all these aspects.Index Terms-Data management, document engineering, dynamic compound documents.

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