Documentation Without Documents -- The COIL Model
http://www.writersblock.ca/summer1998/techno.htm

Thurston, John
Writer's Block

Abstract:

A description of a Canadian content-management system from the early days of the emerging knowledge management industry. COIL is a document management system that manages the information held in documents, rather than the documents themselves. By integrating more than 1,500 hardcopy pages of legacy documentation into one on-line information resource, COIL provides chart producers with an effective way of consulting the standards and procedures for their GIS, and of managing revisions to those standards and procedures.