Light-weight composition of personal documents from distributed information

Abstract

Digital information is typically distributed across several resources, but users are annoyed by the need to deal with different formats and applications for its retrieval, processing and creation. Corporate solutions for document composition are heavy-weight and unwieldy for extemporaneous usage. On the contrary, we propose a light-weight interaction framework, in which document specification results from the selection of existing resources, also comprising annotations retrieved from the Web. Style-sheets allow on-the-fly generation of actual documents. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.