authoring through editing and review and ending with printed test booklets or booklets formatted for electronic presentation in one embodiment we have found benefits to a single repository for all information relating to an item all editing formatting and printing will use that one source one way to implement the solution is through the use of u201c structured documents u201d which will identify the several components of item information a current technique for identifying the structure of information includes but is not limited to xml some benefits of the present approach and system include ease of use and flexibility various embodiments include input screens and output reports that can easily be modified to fit the customer 39 s needs for example some states have u201c learning standards u201d and others have u201c benchmarks u201d our input and output formats will have labels that match the customer 39 s terminology some embodiments provide robust tracking of edits to items and comments from reviews some embodiments keep each instance or version of an item and will always know the current version some embodiments provide item security and access security for example such systems may provide online and other access to item information and this will be role based for example editors may have capabilities that a committee review person may not other features such as limiting access so that certain items will be available only to specified people are available in various.