The Computer Journal
Logic and information
The SGML implementation guide: a blueprint for SGML migration
The SGML implementation guide: a blueprint for SGML migration
interactions
Developing SGML DTDs: From Text to Model to Markup
Developing SGML DTDs: From Text to Model to Markup
Towards a semantics for XML markup
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Document engineering
The Persona Lifecycle: Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design
The Persona Lifecycle: Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design
Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web Services
Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web Services
Intertextual semantics: A semantics for information design
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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In an information system, if data-entry agents (authors) do not understand properly the intentions of the designer of the structure they are populating (the modeler), they can make errors, resulting in incomplete or incorrect information entering the system. Thus, modeler-author communication is of prime importance in the performance of a system. Intertextual Semantics (IS) is a semantic framework for structured-document, based on natural language, intended to facilitate the communication of the modeler's intentions to interface designers and authors. In IS, the modeler prepares peritexts (text-before and text-after segments) in natural language, that help understanding the contents of an element (or field) by putting it in the appropriate context. The experience reported here is the application of IS to the development of an exchange format between funeral homes and cemeteries. The issues raised by the use of this approach are discussed.