SE735 - Data and Document Representation & Processing

Spring 2013

Dr. Francis T. Marchese

Office: 163 William Street, 2^nd Flr.

Office Hours:

T: 3:00 -- 5:30 PM

Th: 3:00 -- 5:30 PM

Tel. 212 346 - 1803

Email: fmarchese@pace.edu

URL: http://csis.pace.edu/~marchese

Course Description

This course introduces the discipline of Document Engineering: specification design, and deployment of electronic documents that enable document-centric applications. These applications include web services, information supply chains, single-source publishing, composite applications/virtual enterprises/portals, etc.

Course topics include:

· developing requirements

· analyzing existing documents and information sources

· conceptual modeling

· identifying reusable semantic components

· modeling business processes and user interactions

· applying patterns to make models more robust

· representing models using XML schemas

· using XML models to implement and drive applications.

Course Materials:

Required Text:

Robert J. Glushko and Tim McGrath, Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web Services, MIT Press, 2005.

Suggested XML books for this course that will be used for XML lectures:

S. Holzner, Sams Teach yourself XML in 21 Days, 3^rd edition, 2004.

C. Bates, XML in Theory and Practice, Wiley, 2003.

Student Requirements:

Student projects will focus on designing and building applications demonstrating course principles.

Exams and Final Grades:

Grades will be based exams and software products produced and class presentations.