IT enablers for:

• Index to off-line knowledge (pointers to people, external documents, etc.)

• On-line text-based repository

  • natural language techniques, ...

• Structured text

  • Document Databases, SGML/XML, ...

• Explicitly engineered knowledge

  • Knowledge engineering, Knowledge discovery, ...

• Intelligent workflow

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Most companies porduce and consume huge amounts of paper

there are major efficiency problems such as:

revision control, component re-use, house style

Strucutured documents mak alla this easier

need to consider

documetn databases. SGML.XML gives units below the document

standard style langauges

The Information management problem - the answer to your question os here - on my desk computer internet intranet, etc

Search engines are drowning

even structured data isnít enough

one persons place is another persons locatipon

there is a need standardised description of document

The kwy fom moving from documetn management to inforamtion management

strcutured docuemtn creation from legacy text

semi-automatic creation of metadata

just-in-time rough creation of specialised documents