ContentManagementSystem

A Content Management System (CMS) is a software tool designed to help content managers create, manage, and publish their custom essay content. The CMS uses a database to track the location of, and relationships among, content elements in a central repository or file system.

Broadly speaking, a content management system describes application software that allows people to more easily change and update content, especially on their websites (WCM). When the content (number of pages, images, etc.), and/or the number of contributors, grows large, a CMS helps collect, create custom essays, and aggregate content in ways that makes it easy to reuse.

A CMS allows a team of contributors to work on the same pages without conflicting (CheckInCheckOut and WorkFlow control). It can schedule pages to appear and disappear at designated times, and archive the old pages with versioning and revision control.

Reuse of content means an item can be edited in one place - see SingleSourcePublishing - and be published instantly in many places. But it also means that the different versions of the content can be formatted properly for MultipleChannel? delivery , including the web (HTML and PDF), print, wireless handheld devices, and cell phones.

Smaller CMSs are for single web authors working one or a few websites. Enterprise CMSs may control hundreds of thousands of pages on hundreds of websites with many dozens of contributors. In between, there are Team CMSs (sometimes called Departmental or Mid-market Systems) for corporate departments and smaller organizations.

NewsPortal software (slash-alikes and the *nuke family) are a form of community CMS, as are Weblog tools (usually for personal publishing) and Wikis (usually for teams of contributors), like this site.

Some CMSs edit unstructured content, whole documents or web pages (usually HTML), others edit structured content, with a content template for a page and individual content elements (usually XML).

Both kinds may have form-based text editing, source editing of the markup language, or WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) visual editing. Smaller CMSs tend to be page-oriented and store HTML. Enterprise CMSs use content templates and usually store content elements as reusable information chunks in XML. Some systems tag and store the information with RDF - ResourceDescriptionFramework - MetaData for the SemanticWeb.

References:
The (Unfulfilled) Promise of CMS, Vincent Lombardi

BT - EnterpriseContentManagement, EnterpriseInformationManagement?
RT - DocumentManagement, KnowledgeManagement, AssetManagement, RightsManagement, RecordsManagement, CustomerRelationshipManagement, LearningManagement? (e-Learning), BusinessProcessManagement, BrandManagement?
USE - ContentManagementSystem


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