An Ontology-Driven Management of Change

Current document management systems (DMS) are designed to coordinate the collaborative creation and maintenance process of documents through the provision of a centralized repository. The focus is primarily on managing documents themselves. Relations between and within documents and effects of changes are largely neglected. To avoid inefficiencies, conflicts, and delays the support of modification management is indispensable. Here I present the design of the LOCUTOR system that aims to provide management of change functionality for arbitrary XML documents ranging from informal, e.g. instruction or construction manuals, to formal documents.