Authoring definition

Noun

The process of creating the content of a document or other content item, i.e., writing or composition.
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 http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=dTtNWLrJwLkC&pg=PA284&lpg=PA284&sig=LHz7mqSKxi3XJlxr8xOJGgNgx80

Hence our readings and subsequent authorings tend to be partial and one sided, [...]
1999, Edward W Soja, Postmetropolis http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=mnbrMlu8fSoC&pg=PA364&lpg=PA364&sig=gfuzuQ2b2i2LgPhcpHT9sboZJnI

While these authorings have not gone uncontested, unopposed, unresisted, they have been hegemonic.
2003, A. Robert Lee, Multicultural American Literature http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=OYYibd5CLsIC&pg=RA2-PA128&lpg=RA2-PA128&sig=KIAgJsXr8HH5EXbPS8EZEKLBpls

English-language authorings offer a complement.
2004, Lee Purcell, Making DVDs http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=buW9PzGfseMC&pg=PA123&lpg=PA123&sig=FDBJ9d_a66ruKbqMYo82nCCsqG8

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.