Information documenting system with improved speed, completeness, retriveability and granularity
OwnerT. Gordon, Dennis Hawleyinventors
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Abstract
An information documenting system that makes use of structured documents and a knowledge tree with links to information and/or to other structured documents such that information from the knowledge tree can be inserted in the structured document as the discretion of the user. Further an information documenting system that makes use of tags in a structured document such that information may be imported from databases or other documents and exported to databases and other structured documents; and makes use of tags such that documents can be formatted to the user's specification(s) and information can be selected for inclusion in or exclusion from a final document.
Claims5
A Method And Apparatus For A Document System, comprising:
- (a) providing a knowledge tree onto which links to user-selected information can be placed,
- (b) providing a structured document where structure is provided by tags that define starting and ending points in the document,
- (c) linking said knowledge tree and said structured document such that the information to which there are links in said knowledge tree can be inserted at a chosen place in said structured document,
- whereby a user can (1) select and insert information into the document as needed to quickly, completely and accurately create the document, (2) select information already in the document for inclusion or exclusion in the final document. (3) select information from a document and cause said information to be used in another document, and (4) define the level of granularity of the information that will be retained in the document according to perceived documentation needs.
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