INFO 243 : DOCUMENT ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE

Document Engineering in the News  

Assigned January 22

Due February 5

Graded

Assignment description:

  • Your assignment is analyze two "Document Engineering in the News" stories. The first one is the "Accelerating RosettaNet" article that you've already read. You can find a second story on the web, in the library, in newspapers or magazines. The only requirements for the story that you find are that (a) it was published in the last year and (b) you can provide a URL or a bibliographic citation for it and (c) no one else in the class has claimed it first by posting the URL or citation to the course list serve.

Pattern Scavenger Hunt / Study Guide  

Assigned February 14

Due March 1

Graded

Assignment description:

  • The purpose of this assignment is to give you some familiarity with a few of the many pattern libraries and standards repositories that can help you in Document Engineering projects. There are seven different places you’ll visit. There are 16 questions that ask about specific resources or that ask you to compare and contrast them.

Business Patterns  

Assigned February 28

Due March 9

Graded

Assignment description:

  • The purpose of this assignment is to test your understanding of the patterns for business models, business processes, and document exchange. There are 16 questions that ask about specific patterns or news stories that illustrate them.

Requirements and Inventory  

Assigned March 7

Due March 16

Graded

Assignment description:

  • This assignment gives you practice at identifying and prioritizing requirements and in locating documents or other information sources

Course Project  

Assigned March 7

Due May 7

Graded

Assignment description:

  • This assignment kicks off your course project. It describes five deliverables/milestones. You'll get feedback on all of them, but only the final ones (final report and presentation) are explicitly graded.

Modeling Processes   

Assigned March 19

Due March 30

Graded

Assignment description:

  • This assignment gives you practice at using DSM, the ebXML process metamodels, and the RosettaNet PIPs for analyzing and improving models of processes.

Document Analysis  

Assigned April 9

Due April 18

Graded

Assignment description:

  • This assignment gives you practice at document analysis and in relating document analysis to business process analysis.

last updated on 2007-05-04 by RJG