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INFOSYS 243: Document Engineering and Information Architecture

Spring 2006
Spring 2005

Course Description

Three hours of lecture per week. This course introduces the discipline of Document Engineering: specifying, designing, and deploying electronic documents and information repositories that enable document-centric applications. These applications include web services, virtual enterprises, information supply chains, single-source publishing, and syndication.

Course topics include developing requirements, analyzing existing documents and information sources, conceptual modeling, identifying reusable components, modeling business processes and user interactions, applying patterns to make models more robust, representing models using XML schemas, and using XML models to implement and drive applications.

Document Engineering has much in common with the field of Information Architecture, but extends its scope beyond web site and web application design. It is complementary to User Interface Design and Development (IS 213), taking an "inside out" or "information driven" perspective on many of the same design issues addressed from the "outside in" by the latter.

This is a MOT related course.

Prerequisites

IS 202, "Information Organization and Retrieval" and IS290A-1, "XML Foundations."