Document Analysis Worksheet
author: Julia Flanders; Syd Bauman
language: en-US

Project and Document Analysis

Consider the sample document(s) you’ve chosen to focus on, and imagine the audience for your digital version of it. Then briefly answer the following questions.

About the document(s)

- What genres do your documents contain?
- What are the significant chunks or subdivisions of your documents?
- List as many as possible of your documents’ significant features that you would want to encode, and provide a justification for encoding these features. Think about audience, likely uses of the information, and the balance of cost and benefit.
- What are the significant presentational features of your document (formatting, layout)? How much of this information do you consider important to capture? What is its effect on a reader's understanding of the text?

About the encoding

- What kinds of regularization of your document—if any—would be useful and appropriate? Would you regularize silently or preserve the original reading? Think about audience and probable use (including long-term use) of the data.
- What kinds of controlled vocabularies and terminology will be useful to constrain your encoding and help you maintain consistency? (For instance, values for the @type attribute on <div>.)
- What kinds of contextual information are needed to make the documents intelligible to your audience? (For instance, glossaries, or biographical information about the authors.)

About the project

- Who is the primary audience? Do they have special needs that can be supported through the encoding of the document?
- List the key features of the document that your audience will need