Talk:Content management

Please, no links to specific systems. There's over 1800 of them and they won't all fit on this page.

definition

The acronym CM is currently in use and defined by the technology industry as Configuration Management". Please avoid proliferation and confusion and do not create an additional definition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.205.247.76 (talk) 16:13, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Content management, or CM, is a set of processes and technologies that support the evolutionary life cycle of digital information" is very confusing as the definition at the beginning fo the article. Especially "evolutionary life cycle" is bewildering. After I read the article, this sentence was clear and concise. But I wonder how many peopel reading that first sentence simply give up? The word "digital information" is very confusing. It can be interpreted in many ways.

(The following is a response to the post above.) As someone who worked in the IT industry as a developer, architect, planner and product owner throughout the evolution of CM systems to what they are today, "digital information" is indeed a correct term. All the data is in fact in digital form even if it was analog data prior to being digitized for storage on computer peripherals. I would agree that "evolutionary life cycle" could be confusing, but it allows that an object could change during its life cycle. (Bobbear43 (talk) 04:29, 12 April 2008 (UTC))[reply]

vandalism?

"It is never as difficult as the VP of Technology would like." That sentence doesn't sound very "right" to me... --Zondran 22:24, 31 August 2006 (UTC) PS! Sorry if my formatting and stuff isn't right, I'm new to the Discussions:)[reply]

Literature with definitions

ECM Enterprise Content Management, Ulrich Kampffmeyer. Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-936534-09-8. Definition, history, architecture, components and ECM suites. Publication in English, French, and German. Free access PDF 213.39.199.199 10:14, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

More vandalism?

Someone took out a huge chunk of information and replaced it with the name of a call center in India and presumably a contact name. It's not the typical vandalism but it certainly wasn't a constructive attempt at contribution, so I reverted to the earlier vandalism fix. If anyone disagrees, please let me AncientBrit 17:33, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

CM Process

Oct 3/07 RBrigante@sympatico.ca

I would like to suggest the following to be considered as a process for Content Management:

1 Create/Update: 1.1 analysis and gathering of materials on which the topic is based 1.2 producing documents or multimedia files related to topic (in any laguage or format required) 1.3 subjecting content for review by subject matter experts and making appropriate revisions 1.4 obtaining approval for publication

2 Catalogue/Security: 2.1 establish key references associated with content 2.2 establish security requirements for content 2.3 fine tune catalogue and security requirements

3 Prototype/Verify 3.1 load content to controlled environment 3.2 verify output and security for expected results

4 Publish/Archive: 4.1 load content to public medium 4.2 confirm output and security 4.3 archive published version

5 Revisions: 5.1 review and qualify recommendations 5.2 update content accordingly 5.3 subject changes for review and approval 5.4 review potential changes to catalogue and security requirements 5.5 verify prototype for expected results 5.6 publish and archive —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rbrigante (talk • contribs) 19:34, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Online Content Management Systems

HotChalk —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.177.121.235 (talk) 15:25, 25 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Better Definition

I found this article while doing research for some CMS cleanups: CMS, GCMS, GMS, and TMS — Content Management, Translation, and Globalization Terms Explained. The specific statement I think is most useful is:

“Content management” refers to the business processes and system software used to capture, store, manage, and distribute text, images, and other digitized information. Specialized CMS software supports these aspects of content publishing, while “enterprise content management” or ECM seeks to solve all problems on a single platform. Content management software does workflow, version control for document check-in and check-out, and other functions that let users concurrently manipulate content and publish it to a variety of devices and audiences.

Since it's an archived article, that should help as a valid citation. If I don't get there first, feel free to massage the intro paragraph with this quote.

The fact that there are sooooo many existing (and many dead) CMSs implies that we're still at the beginning of this development. Definitions, standards, practices and marketing will be the winnowing forces. Most of the CMSs will die off, just as with most other technologies. In the meantime, we need to look for the most appropriate explanations and categorizations on an ongoing basis. (My $.02) GuiderBob (talk) 02:47, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]