在現今資訊暴增的時代，管理資訊是ㄧ大難題。如何有效管理資訊並達到資訊的重用性，是當今數位內容領域中一個重要的開發議題。針對此問題，本論文提出了資訊物件模型的概念。ㄧ個資訊物件包含了因應在應用上所需之基本的資料單元，包括資料部份及處理這些資料的方法，其中也包含描述此資料的格式。處理資訊物件方法之建構應具有擴充性,以因應不同使用者及未來不同的需求。在資訊物件中，將資料及其處理方法建構成一個單元，有利於資訊的儲存、查閱、交換及重用等需求，也有利於長期保存資訊之解讀及處理問題。

資訊物件觀念與物件導向程式設計有許多相似之處，相關的議題是本文探討之重點。資訊物件與物件導向程式設計最大的不同是，資訊物件強調的是資訊之管理及重用性，而物件導向程式設計強調的是軟體之發展及軟體之重用性。本研究也實際建構一個題庫系統來檢驗資訊物件之多項設計問題。

In the information boomed age, Information management is a big problem. The most important issue of digital content management is how to provide a way that can reuse the content efficiently. This thesis proposes a model named Information Object. The information object represents a basic data unit of an application. It includes two part; one is data and the other is method. The data part includes the data and the metadata of data. The method part includes some programs which process or display the data. The method part is expandable to fit different requirements of difficult users. In this model, the concept of information object is useful for data storing, manipulation, integration and reuse.
It also targets the problems of long-term information
preservation.
The concept we propose is similar to object- oriented programming. We propose will be discussed in this thesis. The object-oriented programming emphasizes software developments and component reuse. The information object model we proposed targets the problems of the information management and data reuse. We develop a system named examination questions base system to
demonstrate how information object works.

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