Document Provenance Scoring Based On Changes Between Document Versions

摘要

A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product is provided for optimizing a document change or provenance scoring system by weighting sections of a document, scoring the changes for each section, and then combining the change scores for each section to generate an overall change score. An associated report may also be generated that catalogs all of the various scoring elements. The weighted score is stored in a document management system and provides a human document reviewer a level of detail to evaluate document changes. Accordingly, the weighted score reveals whether a document's changes require a brief or detailed review before the document's changes are approved for a next document version.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method of indicating a degree of changes within a document comprising:
partitioning the document into a plurality of sections and assigning each section a corresponding weight value; determining a quantity of changes within each section and applying the corresponding weight values to the quantity of changes to produce a section value for each section; and determining a change value for the document indicating the degree of changes based on the section values.