Information Architecture with XML: A Management Strategy [Paperback]

Peter Brown (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471486795 | ISBN-13: 978-0471486794 | Publication Date: April 22, 2003 | Edition: 1

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 a business tool. It emphasizes processes and business logic, and will show you how to go about introducing this technology and what must be done to achieve a smooth implementation.
* Offers a management driven approach to XML-based information systems architecture
* Discusses important related standards such as RDF, topic maps, and XML
* Schema
* Describes the building blocks of an XML-based architecture
* Provides a blueprint for an organizational model of the roles and responsibilities of those involved in setting up an XML-based architecture
* Presents a management framework and methodology for developing XML-based information systems

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“...The author…speaks from a wealth of experience…” (ACCU, 13^TH February 2005)

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XML has been introduced into many enterprises by stealth, through the IT back door and with little management overview or buy-in.  This book proposes an alternative: a management-driven strategy.  Its emphasis is on the ends (information management) rather than means (technology).  It focuses on the need for high-level co-operation between all business units and services within an organisation and shows how XML can be both a technology and business integrator.  The benefits it can bring are high levels of interoperability, not only between data and text but also between application processes, business logic and entire information systems.

The books looks at:

• why information management is important
• what XML has to offer the business manager
• how to build an XML Framework
• specific areas where intelligent use of XML will pay dividends

 

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 22, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471486795
• ISBN-13: 978-0471486794
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.7 x 9.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,629,117 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars try first implementing consistent metadata, February 19, 2005

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This review is from: Information Architecture with XML: A Management Strategy (Paperback)

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.