The Center for Document Engineering has evolved into a broader-based effort, the Information and Service Design program. This CDE web site is being preserved as an archive for the projects carried out between 2003 and 2007.
About the Center for Document Engineering
The Center for Document Engineering was established in 2003 at the University of California, Berkeley as a focal point for research, development, and educational activities that span the academic and operational sides of the university. Collaboration with industry and campus computing units ensures bi-directional technology transfer and relevance in research and graduate training.
What Is Document Engineering?
Document Engineering is evolving as a new discipline for specifying, designing, and implementing the electronic documents that request or provide interfaces to business processes via web-based services.
It is natural to conceptualize the business relationships between companies as document exchanges. XML, with its ability to define formal structural and semantic definitions for electronic documents, has rapidly emerged as a key enabling technology as e-business takes hold on the Internet.
XML documents can be the interfaces to business services or applications, allowing them to be loosely coupled rather than tightly connected using APIs.
Document Engineering is a synthesis of
- Information and systems analysis
- Business process modeling
- Electronic publishing
- Distributed computing
For more information about Document Engineering, see the MIT Press book by Robert J. Glushko and Tim McGrath - DOCUMENT ENGINEERING: ANALYZING AND DESIGNING DOCUMENTS FOR BUSINESS INFORMATICS AND WEB SERVICES