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Content Management, also known as CM, is a set of processes and technologies supporting the evolutionary lifecycle of digital information. This digital information is often referred to as content or, to be precise, digital content.
This digital content life cycle consists of six primary states: create, update, publish, translate, archive and retire. For
example, an instance of digital content is created by one or more authors. Over time that content may be edited. One or more
individuals may provide some editorial oversight thereby approving the content for publication. Once published that content may
be superseded by another form of content and thus retired or removed from use.
Content management is an inherently collaborative process. The process consists of the following basic roles and
responsibilities:
- Content Author - responsible for creating and editing content.
- Editor - responsible for tuning the content message and the style of delivery.
- Publisher - responsible for releasing the content for consumption.
- Administrator - responsible for managing the release of the content ultimately placing it into a repository so that it can be
found and consumed.
A critical aspect of content management is the ability to manage versions of content as it evolves. see also version control. Authors and editors often need to restore older versions of
edited products due to a process failure or an undesirable series of edits.
A content management system is a set of
automated processes that support the following features:
- Identification of all key users and their roles
- The ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different instances of content categories or types.
- Definition of workflow tasks often coupled with messaging so that content managers are alerted to changes in content.
- The ability to track and manage multiple versions of a single instance of content.
- The ability to publish the content to a repository in order to support the consumption of the content.
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Roger Bredow - Valuecom.com
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