A great deal of the collective knowledge of organizations
ization is based on the idea of considering a document is stored in documents. To be able to use documents as a main information unit in an organization, as Sprague effectively, the information structure in the documents (1995, p. 32) defines a document: ''. . . a set of informashould be carefully planned. International standards, for tion pertaining to topic, structured for human comprehenexample SGML, have been developed for defining docusion, represented by a variety of symbols, stored and hanment structures. The definition method however is not enough. For defining effective document standards for dled as a unit.'' The terms electronic document and digital an organization, a profound document analysis is document refer to documents stored using modern inforneeded. In the analysis, current documents and documation technologies. Sprague also suggests the development management practices should be studied and dement of an electronic document management strategy in scribed before developing new document structures and an organization. In our approach, standardization is taken document management practices. The development of a methodology for document analysis is going on in a as a cornerstone of such a strategy. The standardization project studying legislative documents produced in the should provide definitions for the notions and concepts Finnish government and parliament. The article deneeded in the document management, and definitions for scribes the first results of the project. As the document the document structures.
structure definition method, SGML is used in the project.
For defining effective standards for digital documents
The analysis method is developed and extended from an object-oriented method. The article introduces the main of an organization, a profound document analysis is phases of the analysis: Domain definition, object modelneeded. In the analysis, current documents and document ing, state modeling, and content modeling. The applicamanagement practices are studied and described, and new tion of the methodology in the case project and the data document structures and document management practices gathering methods used are also described.
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