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SIGIA-L: summary of content inventory responses
From: samantha bailey (a2slb_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: Tue Oct 09 2001 - 21:26:09 EDT
Thanks to everyone who contacted me about performing large content
inventories; I had some very helpful responses.
By far the most helpful suggestion came from Victor Lombardi, who pointed me
to: _Taking A Content Inventory_ by Janice Crotty Fraser
http://webtechniques.com/archives/2001/10/fraser/ I strongly recommend this
article to anyone interested in performing content inventories; it's
practical and informative. It should be required reading for any intro. IA
course!
Based on samples from several people and my own work over the past couple
weeks I've put together a draft excel template for a first pass content
inventory; email me off list if you'd like me to send the excel file as an
attachment (it's generic, but could be a useful starting point).
Chris Chandler also mentioned MS Project as a possible tool:
"Several months ago, someone on this list sent me an example
of a site map they had done in Microsoft Project -- which
was an odd but sort of brilliant solution to a particular
set of problems.
Off the top of my head, I think it might be a pretty
interesting tool to use for such a large content inventory.
-- you can easily set up a hierarchical representation of
the pages
-- *in theory* you should be able to import data from the
other programs you mentioned
-- you can expand and collapse the views of the data
-- you can move members of the hierarchy around
-- you can record all kinds of detailed "properties" of each
page
-- you can assign resources to those pages/topic areas
-- you can document dependencies between the pages and the
resources"
Samantha Bailey
samantha_at_baileysorts.com | http://baileysorts.com
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