Evaluating the ‘Genre Lens’ for Analyzing Requirements for Content Assembly

Content management is focused on managing a variety of content such as Web sites, documents, and content integrated from multiple sources. Genres communicative types with similar substance and form can be thought of as prototypical, user-defined models of the content used in recurrent work tasks. This paper discusses a study in which the theory and research findings related to genres were operationalized as the genre “lens” for analyzing the content of training, and studying the requirements for content assembly. The genre “lens” was later explicated for a genre-based method. It seems that the genre “lens”, as well as the method, can be applied for analyzing the content for target audiences, and for studying the requirements for syndicating parts of it from existing sources. In the study, the process of content assembly, as well as definitions of transformations from source to target content was also defined.