IS 243 : DOCUMENT ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE

January 18 : Wednesday

Course Overview – Key Concepts of Document Engineering and Information Architecture 

Required Readings

Chapter 1 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Resources

Document Engineering in the News assigned 

Due on January 23

Assignment details

January 23 : Monday

Document Engineering and Information Architecture – Applications and Strategies 

Required Readings

Chapter 16 of Document Engineering [Textbook, 554-571]

"Accelerating RosettaNet" Burgert [Online]

E-Commerce World (November 2001)

Paperless Trading: Benefits to APEC, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade [Online] (2001)

"HIT and MIS: Implications of Health Information Technology and Medical Information Systems" P. Goldschmidt [Online, 69-74]

Communications of the ACM (October 2005)

Resources

Document Engineering in the News due 

January 25 : Wednesday

XML Foundations 

Required Readings

Chapter 2 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Chapter 15 of Document Engineering [Textbook, 491-501]

Resources

January 30 : Monday

Introduction to Analysis and Modeling 

Required Readings

Chapter 3 of Document Engineering [Textbook, 73-86]

"Integrating America" Todd Datz [Online]

CIO (December 2002)

What is Business Process Design and Why Should I Care?, Jay Cousins and Tony Stewart [Online] (April 2002)

What's in a Name?, J. Brian Farish [Online]

Chapter 15 of Document Engineering [Textbook, 505-509]

Resources

February 1 : Wednesday

Business Patterns and Reuse 

Required Readings

Chapter 3 of Document Engineering [Textbook, 86-100]

Do Some Business Models Perform Better than Others?, Peter Weill, Thomas W. Malone, Victoria T. D’Urso, George Herman and Stephanie Woerner [Online]

E-Gov: Federal Enterprise Architecture [Online]

"FEA Consolidated Reference Model Document" Office of Management and Budget [Online, pages 1-6, 21-23 ]

FY07 Budget Formulation

Resources

February 6 : Monday

Models of Business Organization 

Required Readings

Chapter 4 of Document Engineering [Textbook, 102-118]

"Principles of E-Government Architecture" Sean McGrath and Fergal Murray [Online]

Propylon White Paper (July 2003)

"It All Began With Drayer" Christopher Koch [Online]

CIO (August 2002)

Supply-Chain Operations Reference Model, Supply-Chain Council [Online]

Resources

Pattern Scavenger hunt assigned 

Due on February 17

Assignment details

February 8 : Wednesday

Models of Business Processes 

Required Readings

Chapter 4 of Document Engineering [Textbook, 119-127]

Beginning of Chapter 8 [Online, pages 221-231]

Organizing Business Knowledge, George A. Herman and Thomas W. Malone. (September 2003)

MIT Process Handbook [Online]

RosettaNet PIP Directory [Online]

Resources

February 13 : Monday

Models of Business Information 

Required Readings

Chapter 4 of Document Engineering [Textbook, 128-147]

Chapter 6 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Microformats [Online]

Cover Pages -- XML Applications [Online]

OASIS Technical Committees [Online]

OASIS Technical Committees [Online]

Universal Business Language 1.0 (Sections 1-6.4) [Online]

Resources

February 15 : Wednesday

Models of Business Information 

Required Readings

Chapter 4 of Document Engineering [Textbook, 128-147]

Chapter 6 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Microformats [Online]

Cover Pages -- XML Applications [Online]

OASIS Technical Committees [Online]

OASIS Technical Committees [Online]

Universal Business Language 1.0 (Sections 1-6.4) [Online]

Resources

February 17 : Friday

Pattern Scavenger hunt due 

February 20 : Monday : Presidents' Day

President’s Day Holiday 

February 22 : Wednesday

Models of Business Architecture 

Required Readings

Chapter 5 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

"Principles of Service Oriented Integration" Sean McGrath and Fergal Murray [Online]

Propylon White Paper (July 2003)

"The strategic implications of Wal-Mart’s RFID mandate" David Williams [Online]

Directions Magazine (July 2004)

On Demand Business: The New Agenda for Value Creation, Randall Hancock, Peter Korsten and George Pohle [Online]

Resources

Business Patterns assigned 

Due on March 3

Assignment details

February 27 : Monday

The Document Engineering Approach 

Required Readings

Chapter 7 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Universal Business Language 1.0 Appendix B [Online]

Resources

Final Project Presentation and Deliverables assigned 

Due on May 8

Assignment details

Project Proposal assigned 

Due on March 13

Assignment details

Getting to Know UML assigned 

Due on March 13

Assignment details

March 1 : Wednesday

Business Process Modeling Case Studies 

Required Readings

"Electronic Health Records: Just around the Corner? Or over the Cliff?" R. Baron, E. Fabens, M. Schiffman and E. Wolf [Online, 222 - 226]

Annals of Internal Medicine 143 (August 2005)

"Adoption of UBL in Denmark – business cases and experiences" M. Brun, J. Brown and R. Lohde [Online]

XTech (2005)

"RosettaNet for Intel’s Trading Entity Automation" J. Cartwright, J. Hahn-Steichen, J. He and T. Miller [Online]

Intel Technology Journal (August 2005)

Resources

March 6 : Monday

Document Modeling Case Studies 

Required Readings

"Clinical Data Standards in Health Care: Five Case Studies" K. Kim [Online]

California Health Care Foundation (July 2005)

"XML in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Structured Product Labeling" K. Thomas [Online]

Proceedings of the Conference XML 2004 (2004)

"IRS Modernized e-File for Corporate and Exempt Organization Returns. Section 8.2 of How the US Federal Government is Using XML: One Year Later" K. Sall [Online]

XML Standards Format for the College Academic Record (Transcript) Implementation Guide [Online]

Resources

March 8 : Wednesday

Requirements and Context 

Required Readings

Chapter 8 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Resources

Requirements and Inventory assigned 

Due on March 15

Assignment details

March 13 : Monday

Document Inventory 

Required Readings

Chapter 11 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Chapter 16 of Document Engineering [Textbook, 540-554]

[Handout, 33-49]

The Myth of the Paperless Office, A. Sellen and R. Harper. ()

Resources

Project Proposal due 

Getting to Know UML due 

Project Status Report assigned 

Due on April 5

Assignment details

March 15 : Wednesday

Business Process Analysis I 

Required Readings

Chapter 9 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Chapter 16 of Document Engineering [Textbook, 540-554]

Resources

Requirements and Inventory due 

Modeling Processes assigned 

Due on March 24

Assignment details

March 20 : Monday

Business Process Analysis II 

Required Readings

"Staple yourself to an order" Shapiro, Rangan and Sviokla [Handout]

Harvard Business Review (1992, Reprinted in July-August 2004)

[Handout, 33-49]

The Myth of the Paperless Office, A. Sellen and R. Harper. ()

Resources

March 22 : Wednesday

Business Process Design; First Half Review  

Required Readings

Chapter 10 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Chapter 14 of Document Engineering [Textbook, 501-504]

Resources

March 27 : Monday : Spring Recess

Spring Break 

March 29 : Wednesday : Spring Recess

Spring Break 

April 3 : Monday

Document Analysis[1] 

Required Readings

Chapter 12 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Resources

April 5 : Wednesday

Document Analysis [2]; Project Presentation 1  

Required Readings

Overview and The Sylvia Data Model [Online]

The Syllabus Viewing Application, Lisa De Larios-Heiman and Carolyn Cracraft. ()

Resources

Document Analysis assigned 

Due on April 19

Assignment details

Project Status Report due 

Project Status Report assigned 

Due on April 24

Assignment details

April 10 : Monday

Document Analysis[3] 

Required Readings

Sections 1-3.2.3.2.2 [Online]

Model-driven Application Design for a Campus Calendar Network, Alison Bloodworth and Robert Glushko. ()

Resources

April 12 : Wednesday

Document Component Design [1]  

Required Readings

Chapter 13 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Resources

April 17 : Monday

Document Component Design [2] 

Required Readings

Sections 3.2.4-end [Online]

Model-driven Application Design for a Campus Calendar Network, Alison Bloodworth and Robert Glushko. ()

[Online]

Database Normalization, Ian Gilfillan. ()

Resources

April 19 : Wednesday

Document Model Assembly [1] 

Required Readings

Chapter 14 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Resources

April 24 : Monday

Document Model Assembly [2]; Project Presentation 2 

No required readings for today – work on your project presentation

Resources

Project Status Report due 

April 26 : Wednesday

Implementing Models in Applications [1] 

Required Readings

Chapter 15 of Document Engineering [Textbook, 505-509]

User Interface Design Patterns: Strengths, Challenges and Future Directions [Online]

CDE Tech Reports, Mano Marks and Kelly Snow. ()

Active Documents: Changing How the Enterprise Works [Online]

Adobe Enterprises, Joshua Duhl and Susan Feldman. ()

Resources

May 1 : Monday

Implementing Models in Applications [2] 

Required Readings

Chapter 15 of Document Engineering [Textbook, 510-522]

Tour of Adobe process management solutions. Flash demo linked under “News and Highlights”. [Online]

Adobe solutions extend document-based business processes throughout the enterprise. [Online]

Overview of IBM Workplace Forms [Online]

Resources

May 3 : Wednesday

Implementing Models in Applications [3] 

Reading about composite applications TBD

Required Readings

Chapter 15 of Document Engineering [Textbook, 522-535]

Beyond Integration: Assembling Business Solutions from Web Services [Online]

xfy Enterprise Solutions and Business Transformation [Online]

Resources

May 8 : Monday

Final Project Presentations and Course Wrapup 

Resources

Final Project Presentation and Deliverables due 

March 3 :

Business Patterns due 

March 24 :

Modeling Processes due 

April 19 :

Document Analysis due 

last updated on 2006-02-01 by Mano Marks