The Information School at the University of Washington LIS 549 U/TU: Intro to Content Management Fall 2003 * Bob Boiko * MSIM Associate Chair Intro to Content Types

The Information School at the University of Washington LIS 549 U/TU: Intro to Content Management * Fall 2004 * Bob Boiko * MSIM Associate Chair What is content made of? The keys –Manageability –Reusability –Standardization Content types –The models that all content follows –The standardization that leads to management and reuse Components –Instances of the models (the model filled in) –The actual stuff h

The Information School at the University of Washington LIS 549 U/TU: Intro to Content Management * Fall 2004 * Bob Boiko * MSIM Associate Chair Content has types A type is –A named model of a type of information Deliverable, Press Release, Download, Service –A set of rules –A “template” for creating content

The Information School at the University of Washington LIS 549 U/TU: Intro to Content Management * Fall 2004 * Bob Boiko * MSIM Associate Chair Content has components An instance is –One member of the type –A particular example of the class –A usable chunk of content

The Information School at the University of Washington LIS 549 U/TU: Intro to Content Management * Fall 2004 * Bob Boiko * MSIM Associate Chair Components are the basic units of CM Whenever you create new content Whenever you move existing content into your system Whenever you store content Whenever you archive or delete content Whenever you create a publication page Whenever you gather statistics

The Information School at the University of Washington LIS 549 U/TU: Intro to Content Management * Fall 2004 * Bob Boiko * MSIM Associate Chair Content types are the core of your content model Types define the kinds of information you want to deliver Types organize –Collection –Management –Publishing

The Information School at the University of Washington LIS 549 U/TU: Intro to Content Management * Fall 2004 * Bob Boiko * MSIM Associate Chair Content types have elements Elements are –Named parts of content type –Individually stored and accessible units within a component –The basic unit of content

The Information School at the University of Washington LIS 549 U/TU: Intro to Content Management * Fall 2004 * Bob Boiko * MSIM Associate Chair Elements have types and values Classified by use –Management –Body Classified by what they contain –Identifiers –Text (formatted or unformatted) –Lists (open or closed, flat or hierarchical) –References (personId="Person33“) –BLOB (images, and other binaries)

The Information School at the University of Washington LIS 549 U/TU: Intro to Content Management * Fall 2004 * Bob Boiko * MSIM Associate Chair What do Components Look Like?