Markup in Engineering Design: A Discourse

Lian Ding and Shaofeng Liu
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Lian Ding: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, UK
Shaofeng Liu: School of Business and Management, University of Plymouth, UK

Future Internet, 2010, vol. 2, issue 1, 1-22

Abstract: Today’s engineering companies are facing unprecedented competition in a global market place. There is now a knowledge intensive shift towards whole product lifecycle support, and collaborative environments. It has become particularly important to capture information, knowledge and experiences about previous design and following stages during their product lifecycle, so as to retrieve and reuse such information in new and follow-on designs activities. Recently, with the rapid development and adoption of digital technologies, annotation and markup are becoming important tools for information communication, retrieval and management. Such techniques are being increasingly applied to an array of applications and different digital items, such as text documents, 2D images and 3D models. This paper presents a state-of-the-art review of recent research in markup for engineering design, including a number of core markup languages and main markup strategies. Their applications and future utilization in engineering design, including multi-viewpoint of product models, capture of information and rationale across the whole product lifecycle, integration of engineering design processes, and engineering document management, are comprehensively discussed.

Keywords: engineering design; annotation; markup; review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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