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Content Management Systems Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities 2001

Content Management Systems Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities 2001

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Content Management SystemsContent Management Systems

Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities 2001

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RoadmapRoadmap

Content Manipulation:

ScriptingWeeks 1-4 Content

Servers & DatabasesWeeks 1-4

InformationRetrievalWeek 5

ContentRepresentation

SystemsWeeks 6-7,9

FieldResearchSystems

(incl QDAS)Week 8-11

Audience AnalysisWeek 12

Intellectual Property & Rights Management

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What every web publisher is looking for?

What every web publisher is looking for?

• A system for managing digital content, resources and rights.

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The Content Management Challenge

The Content Management Challenge

• Building interactive content stores for information delivery

• Managing multimedia content• Moderating feedback & participation • Maintaining design standards • Repurposing & syndicating content • Indexing, searching and navigation • Publishing is not a technical speciality • Multi-language publishing

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CMS CharacteristicsCMS Characteristics• Content separated from presentation

– users are or can be insulated from the specific delivery coding (just as Word insulates the use from the internal markup)

– Site or Corporate design constraints are honoured

• Editorial Control• Users are separated from the mechanics of

publishing • Managing inbound and outbound content• Storing, or at least organising multimedia

content• Dynamic content serving• Rights management

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Inbound content ModerationInbound content Moderation

• Take feedback, survey, commentary, review and other content submitted by external users

• Provide a mechanism for authorising/approving the content

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ModerationModeration

• Used in BBS, Forum and Website architectures to provide controlled discussions, feedback and input

• Eg Montage:School submissions arrive in XML for moderation in the publishing system

• Submissions can be republished or used in “Mail Merge” style e-mailouts (eg E-Zine).

• Applications: Surveys, Reviews, Feedback, User contributions, Competitions, Subscriptions, etc

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Repurposing & syndicating content

Repurposing & syndicating content

• News feeds and other information can be syndicated based on whatever selection rules apply

• Syndicated content can be delivered anywhere required via HTTP,XML, Email, FTP

• Building content in multiple forms:– Eg HTML information pages, broadbande

magazines

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Indexing, searching and navigation

Indexing, searching and navigation

• The key to building structured self-maintaining and current websites

• Search engines alone have limited value, navigation aids are also important

• Indexing facilities can give structured subject and navigational guides based on content information

• The intellectual effort of classification ultimately pays off in large and complex sites

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Intelligent AgentsIntelligent Agents

• Using the underlying data store to generate related subject areas, similar topics and associated articles

• Generating meta information to improve search engine discovery

• Generating meta information for advanced integration with search engines

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Objective of a CMSObjective of a CMS

• Build a long-term multimedia content store of all relevant images, text and multimedia material

• Give end-user control over publishing• Maintain site Editorial standards• Combat issues of obsolescence in

representational technology

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Applications in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Applications in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

• In Art History– Photographic image databases– Feeding into online websites and virtual

exhibitions

• In Literature analysis and criticism– Full text databases– Re-generating and re-circulating out of print

items– The opportunity to encapsulate the “complete”

corpus of knowledge in a given “closed” literary segment (eg Greek & Roman Classics)

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Multi-lingual issuesMulti-lingual issues

• Can the software be used in an international multi-office setting ?

• Multi-lingual site design raises issues of country-specific graphical design

• The UI might need to be country configurable

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Rights managementRights management

• Every object in the database should have the capability to report on rights associated with the object

• Usage reporting on rights – a major challenge in existing web architectures

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Looking for word processing features

Looking for word processing features

• WYSIWYG editing• Spell checking• Customised forms• Easy navigation, searching,

publishing

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A Conceptual framework

Document

Language Instance Presentation Instance

Video Audio Image Text Print

HTML/XML

Email

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CMS TourCMS Tour

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