Reuse

Reuse is the practice of using existing components of content to develop new content.

Reuse is also the process of linking to an element of reusable content. In order to effectively reuse content, it must be properly structured. See StructuredWriting.

Reuse describes a ContentElement that can appear in more than one place (e.g. website, a product brochure, press release, user guide).

Maintaining an element in just one place insures uniformity and accuracy wherever it appears, although it might require variant versions.

Because style and layout are controlled by the enclosing Template, the same information appears to integrate into each use.

Note that a ContentElement can be a complete templated object with many sub-elements, an RSS news feed, a graphic, or simply an HTML or XML fragment from a database.

SCORM? (Shareable Content Object Reference Model) is a proposed standard for reusing content objects in e-learning applications.


Up to CmsGlossary or DitaGlossary.