Project and Document Analysis
Consider the sample document(s) you’ve chosen to focus on, and
imagine a hypothetical audience for your digital version of it.
Then briefly answer the following questions:
- Who is the primary audience? Do they have special needs that can
be supported through the encoding of the document?
- What functions do you want to provide for your audience: what
kinds of searching? What kinds of navigation? What kinds of information
would need to be encoded to support these functions?
- What are the significant informational features of the documents
that will need to be represented?
- What are the significant chunks or subdivisions of your
documents?
- List as many as possible of your documents’ significant features
that you would want to encode, and provide a justification for encoding
these features. Think about audience, likely uses of the information, and
the balance of cost and benefit.
- What are the significant presentational features of your
document? How much of this information do you consider important to
capture?
- What kinds of regularization of your document—if any—would be
useful and appropriate? Would you regularize silently or preserve the
original reading? Again, think about audience and probable use (including
long-term use) of the data.