Document management book & web site

[Ron Rothbart <ron -dot- rothbart -at- DOCUMENTUM -dot- COM>]

 Geoff Hart writes:
 >Since we've been discussing documentation management
> systems and software lately, I thought this might be of
 >interest:
>Boyle, J. 1997. A blueprint for managing documents. Byte
 >(May 1997): 75-80.

Here's a book on the subject. I haven't read it yet, but it looks good:

Electronic Document Management Systems:
    A User Centered Approach For Creating, Distributing and
                 Managing Online Publications
Larry Bielawski and Jim Boyle
Prentice Hall

Here's the TOC:

         Part I.  Concepts
     1 A New Paradigm for Managing Online Documents
     2 Electronic Document Management: Needs, Benefits, Risks
     3 The Document Management Space

        Part II.  Technology
     4 Repository
     5 Conversion
     6 Indexing and Searching
     7 Creation
     8 Workflow
     9 Distribution

       Part III.  Methodology
     10 Methodology
     11 Analysis
     12 Prototyping
     13  Infrastructure
     14 Design and Development
     15 Implementation and Support

         Part IV. Vendors
     16 Vendor Profiles
     17 Vendor Listing

It focuses on four vendors: Documentum (my company), Interleaf, OpenText,
and PC DOCS.

There's also a document management web site built around this book:
http://www.goucher.edu/~docman/

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