Improving Document Evolvability Based on Normalized Systems Theory.

During the last decade, there was a huge shift in the problem of evolvability. However, still, the problem remains fully unresolved. Our focus is to improve evolvability in the domain of data stewardship planning. The main problem causing the low evolvability is the use of traditional documents - data management plans. Our approach redesigns the workflow of creating the data management plan with a possibility to extend an application to similar well-structured documents in different domains. We base our approach on principles and recommendations from the Normalized Systems Theory and on the usage of ontologies. The result is a new workflow that should increase the evolvability compared to the current state.