Canonical Concepts of Content Management – Prospects in retrospect

Dr. A.Y. Asundi*Professor and Chairman (Ret.), Dept. of Library and

Information Science, and Officer-in-charge, IT Centre, Bangalore University, Bangalore-560056.

ashokasundi@rediffmail.com

Outline of the TopicOutline of the Topic

• Introduction• Content Development• Content Management• Underlying Basic Concepts• Overview of Library Practices

– Library Classification– Library Cataloguing– Documentation and Information Services

• Machine Readable Catalogue• World Wide Web and the Virtual Environment

Meaning of Content and ConnotationsMeaning of Content and Connotations

• ContentContent – – Formats of representation according to the study Formats of representation according to the study and contextand context

• ContentContent – Colloquially media and not medium; but part of the Colloquially media and not medium; but part of the mediummedium

• Content Content – Social media, TV Commercials (CMS for easy – Social media, TV Commercials (CMS for easy manipulation)manipulation)

• ContentContent - Meaning in Journalism and Mass communication subject matter with populist approach to reach the lowest denominator of the society

• Content Content – Scientific communication – specific audience

• Content – Library and Information Science – Information sources – MSS, Braille, Incunabula, Print and electronic, virtual, Books, Periodicals, Reference books, Visual documents (Maps)

Changing dimension of Libraries and the Content Changing dimension of Libraries and the Content Development and ManagementDevelopment and Management

• Clay Tablet, MSS, Papyrus libraries

• Chained Libraries

• Traditional Libraries

• Library Classification and Cataloguing

• Documentation

• Information Explosion – Information Services (SDI)

• Impact of ICT and WWW – Digital Libraries, Virtual

Libraries

A Chained LibraryA Chained Library

Clay TabletsClay Tablets

Underlying basic conceptsUnderlying basic concepts

• Ranganathan’s concept of ‘Document’ – Soul, Subtle body, gross body

• Cataloguing Practices – Catalogue codes/Standards – AACR, ISBDs, CCF, CCC , Authority files, GMD

• Machine Readable Catalogue – MARC Record format – Physical Record, Logical Record, Tags and content representations, Versions of MARC – MARC21

• WEB or Digital /Virtual Content – Metadata, Markup Languages, Content Management systems, e-learning systems, CMS, LMS

Overview of Library PracticesOverview of Library Practices

• Library Classification Library Classification – Content Representation

Call Number, Class Number, Book Number (Form representation – Subtle and Gross body)

• Library Cataloguing Library Cataloguing – Content Description

Inner forms and outer forms of catalogue, General Material Designations –

• Indexing and Abstracting – Rules of procedure – modes of rendering subject descriptors

• Machine Readable Catalogue – Virtual Content Representation

• Web Resources Identification – Metadata, XML, RDF

Example of a Card Catalogue EntryExample of a Card Catalogue Entry

List 1List 1 List 2List 2 List 2 (Contd.)List 2 (Contd.)

BrailleCartographic MaterialComputer FilesGraphicsManuscriptsMicroformsMotion PictureMultimediaMusicObjectSound RecordingTextVideo Recording

Activity CardArt OriginalArt ReproductionBrailleChartComputer FilesDioramaFilmstripFlash cardGameGlobeKitManuscriptsMap

MicroformsMicroscope slideModelMotion PictureMusicPictureRealiaSlideSound RecordingTechnical DrawingTextToyTransparencyVideo Recording

General Material DesignationsGeneral Material Designations

Word Processing Tools and CMSWord Processing Tools and CMS

• Transformation of Word Processing Tools :Transformation of Word Processing Tools :

– Character processingCharacter processing

– Sentence processingSentence processing

– Page formatting and ProcessingPage formatting and Processing

– OLE – Object Linking and EmbeddingOLE – Object Linking and Embedding

– Web Content Management Systems – HTML Editors - Netscape, Web Content Management Systems – HTML Editors - Netscape,

Home Site , Dreamweaver, MS PublisherHome Site , Dreamweaver, MS Publisher

See What MS Publisher Can DoSee What MS Publisher Can Do

<HTML> (Opening Tag for the Page)<HEAD> (Heading Section)

</HEAD> (Closing Statement for the Heading) <BODY> ………… Content with respective formatting codes)

</BODY> (Closing Tag for the Content) </HTML> (Closing Statement for Page)

For example: to define the bulletted list the HTML coding is as shown below:<p><ul><li>is it in Times New Roman font or Geneva?</li><li>is it black or red?</li><li>is it 12 point or 36 point?</li><li>is there a paragraph after the first 45 characters? or 60?</li><li>is there a horizontal rule after the third paragraph?</li><li>are there images embeded in the document?</li><li>and so on...</li></ul></p>

Example of HTML CodingExample of HTML Coding

<entry><caption><name>

<address><address1>

<city><pincode> <email>

Then, when you build your address book document, you would write:<entry id="1">

<caption>Dr</caption> <name>A.Y.Asundi</name>

<address>#77 3rd Main Road</address> <address1>Prashantanagar</address1>

<city>Bangalore</city><pincode>560 079</pincode>

<email>ashokasundi@rediffmail.com</email> </entry>

Example of XML FormatExample of XML Format

RDF Example ( MP3 Record of Dr. Rajkumar)RDF Example ( MP3 Record of Dr. Rajkumar)

<?xml version="1.0"?><?xml version="1.0"?>< rdf:RDF< rdf:RDFxmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"xmlns:cd="http://www.recshop.fake/cd#">xmlns:cd="http://www.recshop.fake/cd#">

< rdf:Description< rdf:Descriptionrdf:about="http://www.amazon.com/Legends-Maestro-Melodies-rdf:about="http://www.amazon.com/Legends-Maestro-Melodies-Milestone-Collection/dp/ B002ZNJPHY/ref=sr_1_3?s= music& Milestone-Collection/dp/ B002ZNJPHY/ref=sr_1_3?s= music& ie=UTF8&qid=1363790682&sr=1-3&keywords=Dr.+Rajkumar">ie=UTF8&qid=1363790682&sr=1-3&keywords=Dr.+Rajkumar"><cd:artist>Dr. Rajkumar</cd:artist><cd:artist>Dr. Rajkumar</cd:artist><cd:country>India</cd:country><cd:country>India</cd:country><cd:countrycity>Bangalore</cd:countrycity><cd:countrycity>Bangalore</cd:countrycity><cd:company>Amazon .com </cd:company><cd:company>Amazon .com </cd:company><cd:price>$15.9</cd:price><cd:price>$15.9</cd:price><cd:year>03.12.2009</cd:year><cd:year>03.12.2009</cd:year>< /rdf:Description>< /rdf:Description>

RDF Example of Pt. Ravi Shankar CD Collection of Three Ragas)

< rdf:Description< rdf:Description

rdf:about=http://www.amazon.com/Ravi-Shankar-Collection-Three-rdf:about=http://www.amazon.com/Ravi-Shankar-Collection-Three-

Ragas/dp/B000TERMFI/ref=sr_1_2?Ragas/dp/B000TERMFI/ref=sr_1_2?

s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1363790074&sr=1-s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1363790074&sr=1-

2&keywords=ravi+shankar+collection2&keywords=ravi+shankar+collection

<cd:artist>Ravi Shankar</cd:artist><cd:artist>Ravi Shankar</cd:artist>

<cd:country>INDIA</cd:country><cd:country>INDIA</cd:country>

<cd:company>Amazon digital services</cd:company><cd:company>Amazon digital services</cd:company>

<cd:price>$2.79</cd:price><cd:price>$2.79</cd:price>

<cd:year>27.09.2005</cd:year><cd:year>27.09.2005</cd:year>

< /rdf:Description>< /rdf:Description>

..

< /rdf:RDF>< /rdf:RDF>

Web Content Management SystemsWeb Content Management Systems

• According to Wikipedia there are three WCMS – Offline, Online and Hybrid Processing

• Capabilities (As we see them in Social media, like TV addsAs we see them in Social media, like TV adds)

– Automated TemplatesAutomated Templates– Access ControlAccess Control– Scalable ExpansionScalable Expansion– Easily editable contentEasily editable content– Workflow managementWorkflow management– Content ManagementContent Management– Content visualisationContent visualisation– Content syndicationContent syndication– MultilingualMultilingual– VersioningVersioning

Examples of CMSExamples of CMS

• Top five CMS used :Top five CMS used :

– DRUPALDRUPAL– JoomlaJoomla– WordPressWordPress– Text PatternText Pattern– Express EngineExpress Engine

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