Improving the Publication Chain Through High-Level Authoring Support

In the publishing process, readers, publishers and writers can profit from structured documents. Adding explicit structural information to a document is currently so costly that it is rarely done. We show an application of graph technology which supports authors by offering a possibility to model the concepts to be discussed and their relationships. These semantical structures can then be serialized into multiple ordered hierarchies which provide a framework for formulating the document content. Either of the structures can be edited with the other being kept consistent. Publishers can reduce their copy editing and crossmedia publishing cost by using this information. We explain the implementation of these operations as a executable graph production system, that is productions as well as the underlying graph schemas.