A FRAMEWORK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHARACTERISTIC SIGNATURES OF ENGINEERING PROJECTS
DS 77: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2014 13th International Design Conference
Year: 2014
Editor: Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad
Author: Snider, C.M.; Jones, S.L.; Gopsill ,J.A.; Shi, L.; Hicks ,B.J.
Series: DESIGN
Section: DESIGN INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE
Page(s): 1883-1894
Abstract
Engineering projects are highly complex, involving many project actors as they produce thousands of files, e-mails and outputs. The premise of this work is that in these complex project eco-systems there is a high amount of implied information, particularly in the digital files produced by each actor, which has potential to be automatically extracted and used to improve process or output. This work presents a framework by which files can be categorised and analysed, thereby generating useful project information directly from the actions of project actors; and gives two real-data examples.
Keywords: signatures, knowledge, digital objects