Modelling of publishing processing with UML - CiteSeerX

Graphic Arts in Finland 3 1 (200 2) 3published real- time or they are gathered into a single publication. Creating entities manually or ashighly automated as possible are both considered in the diagram. After the publishing phase thepublished product is ready in its final form and can be made accessible to the customer.Figure 4 The Editing PhaseThe News ObjectThe news process is modelled from the moment of a news event occurrence to the state where thenews is delivered to the customer. The news item is ready when it is finally ready for publishing.It is essential to model the development of a news item during the different phases of the process.For this purpose the concept of a news object /7/ was created.Creating a news object (Figure 5) means that an event has been chosen as a news item. Theeditorial staff creates a news object when it discovers an interesting and suitable topic for news. Inthe beginning, the news object is abstract and only a decision about creating a news item. Afterthat, the news object is edited to become a ready news item. While working with the news object,things are added to it. Therefore the model shows the concrete state of a news item during thedifferent phases of the process. The model also shows what has been done to the news item andwhat has to be done before it is ready to be published.1 7