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

Institutional Web Management Conference | Goldsmiths College, University of London | 7-9 September 1999 You say information; I say content Information Data Content –Some examples

Institutional Web Management Conference | Goldsmiths College, University of London | 7-9 September 1999 Content Content is: –authored digitally (digitised if not), stored digitally, published digitally Content can therefore be: –replicated, archived, distributed, re-purposed Managing content

Institutional Web Management Conference | Goldsmiths College, University of London | 7-9 September 1999 Storing content File-based storage –Overview Database storage –Overview

Institutional Web Management Conference | Goldsmiths College, University of London | 7-9 September 1999 The ‘page horizon’ Units of content Granularity File-based storage Relational databases

Institutional Web Management Conference | Goldsmiths College, University of London | 7-9 September 1999 Content as objects Trees vs tables Concepts –Classes –Instances –Relationships

Institutional Web Management Conference | Goldsmiths College, University of London | 7-9 September 1999 Models of content Ontology Modelling content Object model (contrasted with data model) The model takes centre stage

Institutional Web Management Conference | Goldsmiths College, University of London | 7-9 September 1999 Working with models From model to implementation XML/ DOM RDF (metadata)

Institutional Web Management Conference | Goldsmiths College, University of London | 7-9 September 1999 What else? Content in Content out People Intra- and inter-institution working Parts vs Wholes

Institutional Web Management Conference | Goldsmiths College, University of London | 7-9 September 1999 Portrait of a CMS Models Standards Software –Commercial –Open source

Institutional Web Management Conference | Goldsmiths College, University of London | 7-9 September 1999 Summary Some principles for content management