Content%20management

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Content management

• Stephen Emmott
• Kings Information Service Editor
• Kings College London

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You say information I say content

• Information
• Data
• Content
• Some examples

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Content

• Content is
• authored digitally (digitised if not), stored
  digitally, published digitally
• Content can therefore be
• replicated, archived, distributed, re-purposed
• Managing content

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Storing content

• File-based storage
• Overview
• Database storage
• Overview

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The page horizon

• Units of content
• Granularity
• File-based storage
• Relational databases

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Content as objects

• Trees vs tables
• Concepts
• Classes
• Instances
• Relationships

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Models of content

• Ontology
• Modelling content
• Object model (contrasted with data model)
• The model takes centre stage

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Working with models

• From model to implementation
• XML/ DOM
• RDF (metadata)

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What else?

• Content in
• Content out
• People
• Intra- and inter-institution working
• Parts vs Wholes

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Portrait of a CMS

• Models
• Standards
• Software
• Commercial
• Open source

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Summary

• Some principles for content management