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Graphic Arts in Finland 3 1 (200 2) 3Figure 6 The Actors Influencing on the News ObjectThe editorial staff creates a news object and chooses a reporter for it. The point of view is chosenand it is added to the news object. The reporter searches for information and therefore goesthrough the archives of the editorial office and other sources of information and news. All therelevant material found is attached to the news object. The meta- information is always updatedwhen adding, removing or updating things to the news object.The reporter writes the story according to the material gathered by using a cross- media assistingform. Editors and the reporter edit and layout the rest of the material and unite it with the text.Finally, after spell checking and other corrections the news object has become a ready news item.The news item is either added to the publication object or published directly in case of real- timepublication. The ready news item is filed in the editorial office’s archives.1 9
Graphic Arts in Finland 3 1 (200 2) 3A new concept of ‘publication object’ was developed is this project. It is used like the newsobject, but it describes the phases of a publication received by the customer. The publication maybe for example a whole newspaper or a television broadcast.The creation of a publication begins with the creation of a publication object. The news items andpossible advertisements are added to the publication object, when they are ready. The layout ismade when all the material is gathered to the publication object. After the layout and necessarycorrections the publication object is ready to be filed and published in its media. At that time, thepublication object is ready.CONCLUSIONSThe model created is a generic description o f a cross-media publication process and its factors. Atthe same time it is an example about modelling business processes with UML and it illustrates thebenefits that object- orientation brings to modelling. The model facilitates the use of logical objectsin publication processes, such as news object and publication object. These objects can be used todescribe distinctly the development of a single news object and the whole publication in thedifferent phases of the publication process.The model is especially meant to serve as a design pattern for new process models. The diagramsof the model can be adjusted to fit own processes and then specified with more detailed subdiagrams.The diagrams can be simply adjusted with pen and paper or by downloading a diagramfile via URL http://www.media.hut.fi/~th/PUP/pup_final.mdl. The diagrams are in a file formatused by the Rational Rose. A free trial version of Rose has been available at Rational Softw are’swebsite.The model shows also the advantages brought to cross - media publication by integration. Thereport describes the parts of the process that offer possibilities for strong integration. Therefore themodel can be used as a guide while modifyin g own publishing processes towards cross- mediapublication.Further research should be done in designing more design patterns for the essential businessprocesses in different regions of business. This is profitable, because ready design patterns lowerth e first step to business modelling. Further research should be done also in finding the benefits ofobject- orientation in business process modelling.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThe Publication Unified Process project was financed by GTTS which is gratefully acknowledged.2 0
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