- From: Tanja Sieber <tanja.sieber@t-dos.de>
- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 08:29:32 +0200
- To: <editor@content-wire.com>, <semantic-web@w3.org>
Hey Paola, I'm working in the field of technical documentation/communication and could follow your thoughts quite well. :: Documentation is too often still an a-posteriori actitivity in system :: developments, and is generally not sufficiently integrated with the early :: stages of development. YES; I totally agree. And this concerns different parts: the internal documentation (that is handled internally like requirement specification etc.), the external documentation (that is handed to customers) and mainly the process of documentation and its workflow. My opinion is that documentation is done mainly out of liability reasons and there is still a big problem, that documentation should take the placeholder for knowledge sharing and distribution, but as no-one really thinks a-priori about, to use a conceptual model for that data (and I'm very conscious using here only data and not information or knowledge because for me the last two terms are not vaild, when we talk about something which is outside a human being), the effect is somehow chaotic. :: I would be interested to hear at what stage f their process do other :: organisations place the semantic consistency issues - but when it's left :: for too late then a lot of work will have to done again. It's quite interesting to see that concerning the external technical documentation world there often exist semantic approaches to optimize the quality of documentation. But there are only few enterprises and/or organisations thinking about how to optimize their documentation processing using semantic approaches. And coming to the early stage of a product lifecycle and their accompanying documents almost no conceptual modeling for documentation purposes is done. My experience is based on working in automotive enterprises, Tanja ____________ Virus checked by G DATA AntiVirusKit Version: AVK 16.10155 from 04.10.2006 Virus news: www.antiviruslab.com
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