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 a hypothetical audience for your digital version of it. Then briefly answer the following questions:

- Who is the primary audience? Do they have special needs that can be supported through the encoding of the document?
- What functions do you want to provide for your audience: what kinds of searching? What kinds of navigation? What kinds of information would need to be encoded to support these functions?
- What are the significant informational features of the documents that will need to be represented?
- 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? How much of this information do you consider important to capture?
- What kinds of regularization of your document—if any—would be useful and appropriate? Would you regularize silently or preserve the original reading? Again, think about audience and probable use (including long-term use) of the data.