Enterprise Document Content Management

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Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Synopsis:

The course is an introduction into the issue of enterprise digital document management and web content publishing. Students will gain a general overview of this dynamically developing area. They'll get basic knowledge about CMS issue, methodology and available CMS vendors. They'll practice using CMS in a real project as well. It will cover the whole project lifecycle from information architecture design to final web publishing. Students will be able to lead CMS implementation projects and to take part in customization or development of such systems.

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Syllabus of lectures:

1.Introduction of WCM. Motivation for growing family of content management products (content management systems, document management systems) - problems they solve, types of CMS products (CMS, DMS, DRM, PDM, WCM, ...)

2.Web Content Management - characteristics of web or intranet oriented content management systems

3.Life cycle of digital content, roles and responsibilities for creating and managing digital content

4.Content classification and metadata, information architecture and its design

5.Navigation models on www pages, usability

6.Methods for content creation and acquisition, input content adaptation, fulltext search, RSS/RDF, XML

7.User authorization, authentication, user's rights, copyright, LDAP

8.Workflow (publication chain) theory, Petri's net formalization, using state diagrams, etc.

9.Content distribution - methods for distribution and conversion for a different output devices

10.Cooperation of CMS and portals, standards for their integration

11.Content-driven web applications, knowledge bases, Wiki

12.Rich content (DRM, mobile content, broadband)

13.Market overview - main ECM vendors

14.Reserve

Syllabus of tutorials:

1.Analysis of business requirements

2.Design of information architecture

3.Structure of the content, data types and metadata definition

4.Presentation design (section structure, sitemap)

5.Specification of acquisition and export of content (XML, RSS/RDF)

6.Specification of full text search capabilities

7.Implementation of web using CMS

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Study materials:

http://www.w3c.org

http://www.cmswatch.com/

http://useit.com

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Web a multimedia (compulsory elective course)