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Abstract

The invention comprises a computer-based system for creating, editing, and displaying works such as, for example, books, screenplays, speeches, or multimedia works, that include textual components that have a presentation metric associated with them. In one or more embodiments of the invention, the presentation metric is the time that passes when the component is delivered to the intended audience. In one or more embodiments, the components of a work are referred to as 'events.' The invention creates graphical representations of events that visually display the presentation metric of the events and the temporal relationships between events. Events may be subsets of other events. In one or more embodiments, a hierarchy of events is displayed upon parallel levels, each of which represents a different level in the hierarchy. In this embodiment, changes to the presentation metrics of events at one level in the hierarchy are appropriately reflected in the presentation metrics of events in other levels of the hierarchy. One or more embodiments of the invention allow associations between events and certain user selected characteristics, features, resources, concepts or other items or things (collectively referred to as 'structures') to be displayed. In one or more embodiments, 'structural tracks' are displayed, each of which represents one or more of such structures. These structural tracks are displayed parallel to the event presentation metric lines. Links identify events that have a relationship to the structure represented by the structural track.

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