A document repository architecture for heterogeneous business information management

As part of business memories, document repositories should bring some solutions to ensure flexible and efficient uses of dematerialized information content. While the fields of repositories modeling, document integration and interrogation have independently attracted a huge amount of attention, few works have tried to propose a general architecture of document repository management. Thus we propose a repository architecture based on the integration of different complementary modules ensuring an efficient storage of fragmented digital documents and then flexible fragments exploitation. This paper presents also an implementation of such architecture of document repository.