authoring

Noun

 * 1) The process of creating the content of a document or other content item, i.e., writing or composition.
 * 2) The result of this process; a writing or composition.

Usage notes
The sense of the process of composition is very common in computing and multimedia. Also often in attribution: an authoring tool, i.e. a tool used for authoring.

Quotations

 * 1995, Hazel Henderson, Paradigms in Progress
 * Hence our readings and subsequent authorings tend to be partial and one sided, [...]
 * 1999, Edward W Soja, Postmetropolis
 * While these authorings have not gone uncontested, unopposed, unresisted, they have been hegemonic.
 * 2003, A. Robert Lee, Multicultural American Literature
 * English-language authorings offer a complement.
 * 2004, Lee Purcell, Making DVDs
 * The DVD authoring in this process relies on providing a digital master of the video and a time-coded VHS cassette to the person handling the authoring.