An Editor's Workbench for an art history reference work

Abstract

The architecture and some of the realized functionality of a prototype Editor's Workbench that supports the creation and maintenance of an object-oriented publisher's knowledge base is presented. The knowledge base is the repository not only for the actual publication content, but for all the information needed to manage and control the publication process. The concrete application context is an art history reference work. We discuss content acquisition and data modelling aspects of the underlying object network.