Generic Models and Document Tools for Media Production and Data Management in Networked Servers.

Media production takes place in the networked server environment. Many servers have special features or roles and they are highly dedicated. This is the case especially in printed media production, prepress and press frontends. In the Internet and in other web media (e.g. intranet, extranet and web broadcasting), the servers used are more standard and open. They are called web servers which consist of certain software tools, and are run on the basic server platforms, e.g. Windows NT and Unix. Most production processes handle digital and formatted data. These publishing systems, processes, products, sessions and jobs are data sources for production management, e.g. the metadata of content files, and process information, the events and states of the jobs' elements, often located in several companies. By using OpenDoc or Java Bean components, object-oriented trackers and Java applets/applications, in an intranet messaging infrastructure, it is possible to exchange production data and to collect it to be parsed and used in PMS databases. Models of and experiments with these proposed component-based print or web publishing solutions are reported.