Authors:
Klaus-Dieter Schewe
1
and
Bernhard Thalheim
2
Affiliations:
1
Information Science Research Centre, New Zealand
;
2
University of Kiel, Germany
Keyword(s):
Pragmatics, Web information system, Information portfolio, Utilisation portfolio.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Communities of Interest
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Usability and Ergonomics
;
User Modeling
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
Abstract:
AWeb Information System (WIS) can be described by a storyboard, which on a high level of abstraction specifies who will be using the system, in which way and for which goals. Syntax and semantics of storyboarding have been well-elaborated. Pragmatics is the necessary complement addressing what the storyboard means for its users. The part of pragmatics concerned with usage analysis by means of life cases, user models and contexts has been dealt with before. In this paper we complement usage analysis by WIS portfolios, which comprise two parts: the information portfolio and the utilisation portfolio. The former one is concerned with information consumed and produced by the WIS users, which leads to content chunks; the latter one captures functionality requirements.