INFO 243 : DOCUMENT ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE

January 17 : Wednesday

1. Course Overview – Key Concepts of Document Engineering and Information Architecture 

Required Readings

Chapter 1 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Resources

January 22 : Monday

2. Business Motivation and Strategies 

Required Readings

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

"Accelerating RosettaNet" Burgert [Online]

E-Commerce World (November 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 assigned 

Due on February 5

Assignment details

January 24 : Wednesday

3. XML Foundations 

Required Readings

Chapter 2 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

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

January 29 : Monday

4. Case Studies: B2B 

Required Readings

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

"Operation Clean Data" Malcolm Wheatley [Online]

CIO (July 2004)

"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

January 31 : Wednesday

5. Case Studies: Government 

Required Readings

"Integrating America" Todd Datz [Online]

CIO (December 2002)

"E-Government in California: Providing Services to Citizens Through the Internet", Anna Brannen [Online] (2001)

"eGovernment: Serving Small Business in California", Anya Kartavenko [Online] (2007)

"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 2004 Conference

Resources

February 5 : Monday

6. Case Studies: Healthcare & Medical Informatics 

Required Readings

"Key Capabilities of an Electronic Health Record System" Committee on Data Standards for Patient Safety [Online]

National Academies Press (2003)

"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)

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

XML 2004 Conference (2004)

"Cracks in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain" Susannah Patton [Online]

CIO (January 15, 2006)

Resources

Document Engineering in the News due 

February 7 : Wednesday

7. Introduction to Analysis and Modeling 

Required Readings

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

"Business process modeling languages: Sorting through the alphabet soup. (Sections 1-3, pages 1-12)" H. Mili, G. Bou Jaoude, É. Lefebvre, G. Tremblay, and A. Petrenko. [Online]

Research Report, Dépt. d'Informatique, University of Quebec, Montreal (January 2004)

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

Resources

February 12 : Monday

8. The Document Engineering Approach 

Required Readings

Chapter 7 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Resources

February 14 : Wednesday

9. Business Patterns 

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 1-9, 25-26 ]

FY07 Budget

Resources

Pattern Scavenger Hunt / Study Guide assigned 

Due on March 1

Assignment details

February 19 : Monday : President's Day

10. President’s Day Holiday 

February 21 : Wednesday

11. Models of Business Organization 

Required Readings

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

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

CIO (August 2002)

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

Resources

February 26 : Monday

12. Models of Business Processes 

Required Readings

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

"The Coming Commoditization of Processes" Thomas Davenport [Handout]

Harvard Business Review (June 2005)

"What is in the Process Handbook?" George A. Herman and Thomas W. Malone [Online, pages 221-231]

Organizing Business Knowledge (September 2003)

MIT Process Handbook [Online]

RosettaNet PIP Directory [Online]

Resources

February 28 : Wednesday

13. 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]

Overview of OASIS Technical Committees [Online]

List of OASIS Technical Committees [Online]

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

Resources

Business Patterns assigned 

Due on March 9

Assignment details

March 1 :

Pattern Scavenger Hunt / Study Guide due 

March 5 : Monday

14. Models of Business Architecture; Requirements and Context 

Required Readings

Chapter 5 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

"E-Government Architecture in Ireland" Sean McGrath and Fergal Murray [Online]

XML 2004 Conference

"The Digital Transformation: Technology and Beyond" Donald J. Bowersox, David J. Closs, and Ralph W. Drayer [Online]

Supply Chain Management Review (January/February 2005)

Chapter 8 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Resources

March 7 : Wednesday

15. Document / Information Source Inventory 

Required Readings

Chapter 11 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

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

"Two Case Studies (pages 33-49)" [Handout]

The Myth of the Paperless Office (2002)

Resources

Requirements and Inventory assigned 

Due on March 16

Assignment details

Course Project assigned 

Due on May 7

Assignment details

March 9 :

Business Patterns due 

March 12 : Monday

16. Business Process Analysis [1] 

Required Readings

Chapter 9 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Resources

March 14 : Wednesday

17. Business Process Analysis [2] 

Required Readings

"BPM Process Patterns: Repeatable Designs for BPM Process Models" (January 2006) [Online]

Resources

March 16 :

Requirements and Inventory due 

March 19 : Monday

18. Business Process Analysis [3] 

Required Readings

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

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

"Innovation at the Speed of Information" Steven D. Eppinger [Handout]

Harvard Business Review (January 2001)

Resources

Modeling Processes assigned 

Due on March 30

Assignment details

March 21 : Wednesday

19. Business Process Design  

Required Readings

Chapter 10 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Resources

March 26 : Monday : Spring Break

20. Spring Break 

March 28 : Wednesday : Spring Break

21. Spring Break 

March 30 :

Modeling Processes due 

April 2 : Monday

22. Document Analysis [1] 

Required Readings

Chapter 12 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Resources

April 4 : Wednesday

23. Document Analysis [2] 

Required Readings

"The Domain of Domains" Robert Schmidt [Online]

Extreme Markup Languages 2002

"When "It Doesn't Matter" Means "It Matters"" B. Tommie Usdin [Online]

Extreme Markup Languages 2002

Resources

April 9 : Monday

24. Document Analysis [3] 

Required Readings

Overview and The Sylvia Data Model [Online]

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

"Model-driven Application Design for a Campus Calendar Network (Sections 1-3.2.3.2.2)" [Online]

XML 2004 Conference

Resources

Document Analysis assigned 

Due on April 18

Assignment details

April 11 : Wednesday

25. Document Component Design [1]  

Required Readings

Chapter 13 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Resources

April 16 : Monday

26. Document Component Design [2] 

Required Readings

Universal Business Language 1.0 Appendix B [Online]

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. ()

"Creating and Maintaining Large Families of Related Schemas" Anthony B. Coates [Online]

XML 2005 Conference

Resources

April 18 : Wednesday

27. Document Engineering Project Session [1] 

No new readings for today – we will work in class on your course projects

Required Readings

Chapter 7 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Document Analysis due 

April 23 : Monday

28. Document Engineering Project Session [2] 

No new readings for today – we will work in class on your course projects

Required Readings

Chapter 7 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

April 25 : Wednesday

29. Document Model Assembly 

Required Readings

Chapter 14 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

Resources

April 30 : Monday

30. Implementing Models in Applications [1] 

There will be no lecture today; you are strongly advised to attend Jon Udell's lecture "Internet services by the people and for the people" on 5/1 at 5pm in the Service Science lecture series

Required Readings

Chapter 15 of Document Engineering [Textbook]

"Business process modeling languages: Sorting through the alphabet soup. (Sections 4-7, pages 12-54)" H. Mili, G. Bou Jaoude, É. Lefebvre, G. Tremblay, and A. Petrenko. [Online]

Research Report, Dépt. d'Informatique, University of Quebec, Montreal (January 2004)

May 2 : Wednesday

31. Implementing Models in Applications [2] 

Guest: Hideki Hiura of Justsystems

Required Readings

Using xfy to mash up your web life [Online]

Resources

May 7 : Monday

32. Course Wrap-up 

Resources

Course Project due 

last updated on 2007-05-04 by RJG