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Using knowledge about data organization allows for a finer tracking, more relevant analysis and more significant change reporting. Therefore, change management is called to evolve toward a stronger exploitation of structural semantics by algorithms.

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When complex or detailed documents are created, the creation process often involves work done by multiple people, and the document tends to reach certain milestone changes, or revisions. Maintaining different copies or editions of a document, or viewing ...

In an earlier paper at DocEng 2013, we reported on our efforts to make LibreOffice Writer documents be "version aware". Version aware documents use a namespace protected preamble to include a complete version history within the saved document file, plus ...

Several components are required to make a useful n-way merge system for documents. These include an engine to align the information in the documents and possible automated or rule based processing of the result. Another important aspect of the system is ...

Editing of word-processing documents at the presentation level, with visible tracking of changes, operates at a different level of abstraction and granularity than the recorded form in common document-file formats. The consequent mismatches along with ...

To provide office applications with an easy interoperable document merge capability and to enable the usage of document revision across applications, it is necessary to not only standardize the representations of a document state, but also of the ...

Change-tracking of digital documents leads to document alteration in some manner. Protected Change-Tracking (PCT) is a response to the question, "How can one protect word-processing documents against alteration, verifiable by digital signature, and make ...

Academic real-time collaborative document editing faces a number of theoretical challenges. However, when implementing an editor in practice in the form of a web-based solution, a number of more practical challenges appear while some of the more ...