SD - Document Management

• Developing, communicating information
  • US businesses develop 1B/day
  • Office workers spend 40% time: preparing, handling, filing, copying, faxing documents
  • Functions: "Author" components, assemble into document, collaborate, publish, distribute (electronically), archive, find, review/edit/revise, track, reuse
• Issues
  • Metadata
  • Multimedia: images, CAD drawings
  • Quantity, (variable) size, complexity
  • Doc. - Data relationships: refer to, include in
  • Lifecycle, versions, dependencies
  • Security, rights management, open access
  • Usability, (im)portability