2007 EDCMS
- (Liu et al., 2007) ⇒ Shaofeng Liu, Chris McMahon, Mansur Darlington, Steve Culley, Peter Wild. (2007). “EDCMS: A content management system for engineering documents.” In: International Journal Of Automation And Computing, 4(1). doi:10.1007/s11633-007-0056-x
Subject Headings: EDCMS System, Document Content Management System.
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Abstract
- Engineers often need to look for the right pieces of information by sifting through long engineering documents. It is a very tiring and time-consuming job. To address this issue, researchers are increasingly devoting their attention to new ways to help information users, including engineers, to access and retrieve document content. The research reported in this paper explores how to use the key technologies of document decomposition (study of document structure), document mark-up (with EXtensible Mark-up Language (XML), HyperText Mark-up Language (HTML), and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)), and a facetted classification mechanism. Document content extraction is implemented via computer programming (with Java). An Engineering Document Content Management System (EDCMS) developed in this research demonstrates that as information providers we can make document content in a more accessible manner for information users including engineers.
- The main features of the EDCMS system are:
1) EDCMS is a system that enables users, especially engineers, to access and retrieve information at content rather than document level. In other words, it provides the right pieces of information that answer specific questions so that engineers don’t need to waste time sifting through the whole document to obtain the required piece of information.
2) Users can use the EDCMS via both the data and metadata of a document to access engineering document content.
3) Users can use the EDCMS to access and retrieve content objects, i.e. text, images and graphics (including engineering drawings) via multiple views and at different granularities based on decomposition schemes. Experiments with the EDCMS have been conducted on semi-structured documents, a textbook of CADCAM, and a set of project posters in the Engineering Design domain. Experimental results show that the system provides information users with a powerful solution to access document content.
1. Introduction
- The exponential increase in information has affected the manner in which it is accessed, disseminated, and delivered. Emphasis has shifted from viewing of information, to efficient retrieval and monitoring of selective changes to information content[1]. This shift has been reflected tremendously in digital document management scenarios in recent years. Since Electronic Document Management (EDM) systems were introduced in the 1990s (as a new generation of systems to manage digital documents), it has evolved into two distinguishable divisions: simple EDM systems, and Content Management (CM) systems [2]. Simple EDMs are capable of managing documents as single files (text or image), while CM systems are more sophisticated and capable of managing compound or complex documents made up of components, or a range of content objects. Over the past decade, along with the advent of Web technology and the popularity of mark-up technology, CM has stepped into a new era. On the one hand, Web Content Management (WCM), a subset of CM, has become essential for organisations with a significant presence as the volume of content continues to proliferate[3,4]. On the other hand, most medium and large organisations are embarking on a journey to Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems, through which the aim is to manage general document content at numerous levels [5]. Generally, ECMs consist of a core WCM system with supporting document management capabilities [6] . Fig. 1 illustrates the scope of CM that has evolved from EDM.
- CM research is now facilitated by many dedicated software companies which provide commercial CM systems. For example, San Francisco-based LightSpeed Software Inc. offers an XML-based CM system, LightSpeed Astoria [7]. LightSpeed Astoria offers core CM services such as support for authoring and workflow, check in and check out, visioning, and dynamic assembly and delivery. From Europe, Danish Sitecore has released the Sitecore Content Manager to provide a sophisticated yet easy-to-use set of tools for managing Internet content[8]. Applications of commercial CM systems to specific scenarios have also emerged. Wales [9] reported the application of a commercial CM system to the library at the Open University.
- However, there is little work that has focused on CM for engineering documents.
- Engineers involved in the design process have been found to spend as much as twenty to thirty percent of their time searching for and accessing design information[10]. This can be viewed as an indication of the importance of providing better information systems to allow engineers to more easily search and retrieve information.
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| Author | volume | Date Value | title | type | journal | titleUrl | doi | note | year | |
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| 2007 EDCMS | Shaofeng Liu Chris McMahon Mansur Darlington Steve Culley Peter Wild | EDCMS: A content management system for engineering documents | http://personal.strath.ac.uk/shaofeng.liu/EDCMS paper.pdf | 10.1007/s11633-007-0056-x |