TOWARDS A METHOD FOR PROFILING ENGINEERING DOCUMENTATION
DS 36: Proceedings DESIGN 2006, the 9th International Design Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Year: 2006
Editor: Marjanovic, D.
Author: Wild, P.J.; Culley, S.J.; McMahon, C.A.; Darlington, M.J.; Liu, S.
Section: COMPETENCIES & COMMUNICATIONS
Page(s): 1309-1308
Abstract
Recent years have seen a lot of interest in how people use, generate, save, and search, paper and electronic documents. We build on this and related work to develop a method for profiling engineering documentation. Profiling provides information about: 1) the varieties and types of engineering documents; 2) the strengths and weakness of document manifestations; 3) the patterns of document use within different ‘types’ of engineering company. The method is composed of two elements. A set of facets for describing documents, and a framework with which to contextualize documents.
Keywords: documents, documentation profiling, work modelling, engineering, engineering information