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TOWARDS A METHOD FOR PROFILING ENGINEERING DOCUMENTATION
Wild, P.J.; Culley, S.J.; McMahon, C.A.; Darlington, M.J.; Liu, S.
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2006
Editor:
Marjanovic, D.
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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.
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