Using Management Information Within an Editorial Context

Contents

• Introduction
• Management information and Text information
• Insertion of tool inferred information
• Document's life cycle
• Conclusion

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Management Information: Introduction

The majority of the information handled in everyday life is textual. Therefore in the future management tools developed and used will probably put the emphasis on editorial aspects.

It is our conviction that management information and text information will be more integrated in future tools and that the quality of this will directly define the quality of the tools. Let us refer to this integration as cohabitation.

One of the problems is to know which shape this cohabitation will take. This problem may occur on two occasions:

• during information storage;
• during information handling.

One of the features of implementation is to match the format used for storing information with that used for handling it. Unfortunately, this is not usually possible. Nevertheless it constitutes a target to be reached. In the context of this article, we shall tackle the problem only from the modelling viewpoint.

To analyse cohabitation, we shall describe the characteristics of both management information and text information. We shall then define the circumstances in which the two kinds of information optimally cohabit and the targets that we hope to meet. Finally, we shall present some examples of cohabitation.

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