Abstract: In this paper, I describe how genre analyses were used to achieve system requirements, for the first system iterations of the shapeCMS parallel publishing system. I argue that genre-aware systems development delivers a set of core functionalities in terms of form, content, and purpose that a system producing genre instances typically need to support. I also discuss genre change, with a focus on system dependence on five layers of separation between form and content. The layers are (0) contents, (1) the site structure layer, (2) the connection layer (3) the page structure layer, (4) the element layer, and (5) the presentation layer. The four example web sites designed to illustrate the approach, also draws on the four organizational principles of information architecture and digital genres, namely search, structure, hypertext, and stream.
Lundberg, J. (2006). Genre-aware Systems Development - A Case Study of a Web Content Management System. Presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Digital Genre, June 15-16, 2006, Halmstad, Sweden. [pdf]