Extending intelligent content delivery in technical communication by semantics: microdocuments and content services

TLDR: This article proposes how content users might benefit from semantic concepts by the delivery of sets of logically connected topics, which can be described as microDocs, which might also play a role in the provisioning of content by web-services being integrated into different types of content processing and content delivery applications.

Abstract: We address and develop a new concept for the dynamic delivery of topic-based content created within the domain of technical communication. Corresponding content management environments introduced within the last decades, focused so far on semantically structured and mostly XML-based information models and, more recently, on semantic metadata using taxonomies leading together to concepts of so-called intelligent content. Latest developments attempt to extend these concepts with additional explicit semantic approaches modelled and implemented, for example, by using ontologies and related technologies. In this article, we propose how content users might benefit from these semantic concepts by the delivery of sets of logically connected topics, which can be described as microdocuments (“microDocs”). This generic approach of topic assemblies might also play a role in the provisioning of content by web-services being integrated into different types of content processing and content delivery applications.