Underpinning the process changes is a new systems architecture for managing the SGML source information and handling distributed production processes. At the heart of the system lies a document repository, to which agencies gain access through web browsers on an Intranet. The changes underway at Ford impact on each stage of the information creation cycle, from planning to delivery. Abstract I would like propose that we cease to think of the document as a fixed artifact. Documents exist within an information space.
Many documents can exist that discuss and describe the same things.
On a simple level consider a procedures manual and an animated CAD drawing. They both are concerned with a particular product and the way in which it is disassembled, serviced, and reassembled. While each document may express a different perspective on the 'thing', they share many common semantics and organization. In this view of documents and their relationship to schemas what we now think of as a document changes. Rebuilding the document each and every time is a costly and often unnecessary process.