Introduction

This Data & Analysis Center for Software Technical Handbook provides guidelines to Internet information providers for authoring information for the World Wide Web. The handbook covers technical and managerial concerns for designing, implementing and maintaining electronic documents. The handbook is structured around a document life cycle point of view, and identifies many parallels between electronic publishing and software development. Lessons learned from software engineering research, applied to electronic publishing issues, can be used to improve the quality of WWW publishing.

Contents

Topics presented in the handbook include: Document Attributes, Multimedia, Hyper-text Design, Publicity, Hypertext Markup Language and Style, Configuration Management, Conversion Tools, Access Monitoring, Testing, and Policy Issues.

Availability

The handbook is available from the DACS at a cost of $50.00 The handbook will also be implemented in hypertext form and published on the World Wide Web in June of 1995. A link will be added from the DACS Home Page when it is available for on-line browsing. For more information, contact:

Elaine Fedchak
(315) 334-4905; [email protected]