Electronic publishing, storage, dissemination and retrieval of a scientific journal through the Web

The initial part of the paper describes the general architecture of a prototype system developed in the context of the IRIDES project for the electronic publishing, storage, dissemination and retrieval of The Computer Journal, published by Oxford University Press. The core of the paper is devoted to one of the components of the overall system: AUCTOR. AUCTOR is a system for the automatic authoring of HTML hypertext representing the content of the journal's articles. After a detailed description of the system, considerations of the automatically authored hypertext are given. AUCTOR in particular, and IRIDES in general, can be considered as the initial component of a complete environment to collect different collections of documents and services for the implementation of a modern digital library.