Information Architecture with XML: A Management Strategy

by Peter Brown, Peter John Brown, Peter Pappamikail

Book Overview

One of the only books on this subject to focus on XML's value as a business tool rather than the technology.This book deals with important management issues and focuses on demonstrating XML's value as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471486795
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.7" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

try first implementing consistent metadata

This book offers a company a way to recast and re-implement a lot of its data handling. Surely an ambitious goal, and one that many might be reluctant to undertake. But the book strives to explain how a proper management level understanding of XML can enable these changes. It is not a book about the detailed syntax of XML and its associated standards. That is properly the remit of the programmers themselves, to understand and apply. Rather, the book aims at a higher level. Even if your current digital data takes on many disparate formats, you can use XML to implement a consistent metadata view. This is stored in XML and at the very least, lets you do rich searching through corporate data. Without necessarily changing any of the latter. The book discusses far more. But the above can be a conservative approach that lets you gather easy benefits from just a partial XML deployment. Just getting used to thinking about metadata can benefit you as a manager, by exposing new ways of thinking about your company's assets.