8 Steps for Finding, Inventorying, and Analyzing Content

All successful enterprise information projects start with content analysis, and I thought I should share this 6 step framework with you for finding, inventorying, and analyzing content. This is from your new Information Organization & Access (IOA) training program that provides you with a practical step-by-step approach how to do this.

 

• Hypothesize
  • Make educated guesses about the content
• Sample and Audit
  • Look at a representative sample of documents
  • Use an spreadsheet or database “lite” to house information
• Analyse
  • Begin to group content into logical “buckets” or categories
• Inventory
  • Complete full list of all documents
• Clean up, Enrich, and Re-organize
  • May be done in different order depending on use case
• Migrate, if necessary
  • Then continue to assess and re-organize as needed

By Atle Skjekkeland.