Knowledge-based Editing and Visualization for Hypermedia Encyclopedias

ation, we use the Dictionary of Art which is to be published this year by Macmillan Publishers Ltd., U.K., as a 34-volume print edition. More than 6,000 authors and 50 editors have been involved in its conventional publication process for over 15 years. Our research focuses on providing support for the complex and demanding editorial work and on the presentation of hypermedia publications (see Figure 1). Like digital library applications, the Dictionary of Art poses problems of large amounts of information and thus of individual access involving the selection and combination of information which is put together by users demands. As is true for all electronic publication products, there is the additional challenge to meet the quality standards of traditional publishing, in particular of design and layout when presenting the information on the screen. Our approach for meeting these requirements is based on the three concepts which also reflect the overall process. First,