1. Institutional Web Management Conference | Goldsmiths College, University of London | 7-9 September 1999
Content management
Stephen Emmott
King’s Information Service Editor
King’s College London

2. Institutional Web Management Conference | Goldsmiths College, University of London | 7-9 September 1999
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

4. Institutional Web Management Conference | Goldsmiths College, University of London | 7-9 September 1999
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