Distributed Publishing of Electronic Newspapers and Mailorder Catalogues

摘要

The paper introduces the current state of work of the RACE project 1075 TELEPUBLISHING. It concentrates on techniques and concepts utilized to realize two distributed TELEPUBLISHING applications, the Individualized Electronic Newspaper and the production of mailorder catalogues. The Catalogue application pilot concentrates on the application of new communication techniques such as video conferencing to enhance the distributed catalogue production process. The Individualized Electronic Newspaper is a new publication product that seeks to exploit the possibilities of broadband technology and telepublishing. The paper focuses on a publishing model which is based on a combination of structured documents and knowledge-based techniques, and offers new possibilities to cooperative, distributed publishing. The Individualized Electronic Newspaper may be considered as one example for the potentials offered by the approach. (Copyright (c) GMD 1991.)