Informations- und Wissensmanagement durch strukturierte Dokumente

Technical documentation is an important part of complex technical systems. As an information ressource, it is critical importance for the customer as well as for the producer. Consistence in content, interchangebility and reuse is essential. The more extensive and complex the technical documentation the more important is the content structuring. While techniques of structuring (and the separation of contents and layout) in the documentation area are more and more accepted, tools and methods in application of structured documents are missing that utilize these structures. This paper focuses on these problems. First the problems with the current presentation and page oriented paradigm are listed, then the possibility of improvment through using the stucturing is explained. Finally a survey of world wide activities in this area is presented.