An Approach for Designing Proofreading Views in Publishing Chains

Abstract

Documentary production often involves a revising process in which documents need to be proofread. This important task faces new challenges when dealing with digital documents. Indeed, three features of digital writing are problematic: (1) documents evolve very frequently and cannot be proofread each time as a whole, (2) interactions provided by hypertexts make the task less efficient and (3) document repurposing increases the views of content to proofread. As an advanced digital writing technology, XML publishing chains are a relevant framework for studying proofreading of digital documents. This paper argues the need for proofreading views, which enable the comparison of two versions of the document based on a diff algorithm. It also proposes a design approach based on case studies within Scenari publishing chains, involving the annotation of content and the validation of modifications.