Modeling and Exploitation of Multistructured Documents

More than half of information used in organizations is stored in documents. The diversity of their uses implies several descriptions and thus several decomposition needs of these documents (and so several structures). Hence, designing models and tools to exploit simultaneously these various kinds of structures presents a real challenge. To fulfill these needs, we propose a modeling approach based on fragmentation techniques to manage the various issues related to the management of multistructured documents (representation, storage, reconstruction, and management of concurrent structures). Three exploitation modes are proposed according to the different kinds of information searched: information, data interrogation and multidimensional analysis.