November 2006
Ensuring A Successful CMS Implementation
Never mind what the vendor tells you about how the software is going to make your life easier, or what your IT department says it can do to administer and manage the system; the single most important factor in a successful CMS implementation lies with you and your people.
September 2006
Listen: Tools and Technologies to Facilitate User-Centered Design
Listening to your customers is the first step toward becoming a customer-centric organization. Theresa Regli discusses how some organizations are going beyond usability testing to measure the effectiveness of their content. Learn how forward-thinking companies and government agencies are using technology to better understand their customers.
August 2006
Pandora Delivers Personalized Radio
How do you get millions of people to voluntarily tell you what they like and dislike and help you categorize an entire library of content. Offer them what they want. That's exactly what internet radio pioneer Pandora is doing, to the delight of listeners.
July 2006
Software As Service: Google Introduces Web-Based Content Tool
Google is increasing its presence in the content creation tools space by introducing a series of web-based authoring tools. Find out what the search giant is up to and how its "software as a service" offerings might affect your future technology product selection plans.
June 2006
Structured Blogging Aims To Make Microcontent Interoperable
Structured Blogging is a movement that aims to provide bloggers with the tools they need to quickly and easily create and syndicate structured content. The difference between a typical blog post and a structured entry is that Structured Blogging content is published in machine-readable XML format, so computers can understand, reuse, syndicate, aggregate, and act upon it.
March 2006
SafariU Shakes Up Academic Book Publishing
Find out how O'Reilly Media is shaking up the text book publishing industry with SafariU. The subscription-based online service aims to help instructors deliver the right content, to the right students, in the right format, at the right time. Take a test drive and mashup a textbook today!
February 2006
Subsetting And Customizing DITA: An Alternative To Specialization
Bernard Aschwanden suggests some organizations might be able to use a subset of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) to produce technical content without the need to specialize the increasingly popular OASIS standard. Learn what subsetting is and how it compares to customizing and specializing DITA.
January 2006
2005 In Review: Tools and Technologies
The Rockley Group analysts discuss mergers and acquisitons, highlight smart strategic relationships, and shine a spotlight on new "flavors" of content management in this annual wrap-up of technology topics.
November 2005
Internationalization Tag Set Draft Announced by W3C
Internationalization Tag Set aims to provide a set of elements and attributes that supports the internationalization and localization of schemas and other XML documents.
October 2005
Hurricane Katrina Snafus Underscore Importance of Standards
By not writing to standards, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency has created an unnecessary hurdle for many hurricane victims seeking aid who have already endured too much.
September 2005
Automatically Finding Duplicate Content
Using automated software tools can help you identify duplicate and near-duplicate content in large document sets and prepare your content to be loaded into your content management system.
August 2005
Searching vs Finding: Why Systems Need Knowledge to Find What You Really Want
If you're frustrated by fruitless searches that yield too many 'hits' to be useful, you're not alone. Ever wonder how we got ourselves in such a mess? A scientist at Sun Microsystems did, too!
July 2005
Content Management Systems that support DITA
This article provides a high-level view of what several content management system vendors are saying about “support” for DITA.
June 2005
Applying Content Technologies to Enterprise Applications
Content management professionals know where to go to learn what's hot -- and what's not -- in the content management technology arena. Now you do, too! Attend the upcoming Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies in Boston and find out how blogs, wikis, RSS feeds and rich internet applications are being used to deliver content of value to those who require it.
May 2005
Comparing Web Content Management Systems
Searching for a web content management system can be a daunting task. After you’ve done a [url=http://www.rockley.com/summaryc.htm]thorough analysis[/url] (organizational needs, content lifecycle, customer needs, and an audit of your existing content), it’s time to start thinking about tool selection. But where do you start? How do you determine which tool might do the job?
April 2005
Finding Document Type Definition Creation Tools
Hand-coding Document Type Definitions (DTDs) is time-consuming and often error-prone task, especially for the novice DTD developer. If you're creating your own DTD from scratch, or editing an existing standard DTD, consider using a visual DTD editing tool.
March 2005
KeyContent.org: Wiki Technology Facilitates Online Collaboration
Discover KeyContent.org, a new content management-based Web site that utilizes wiki technology to facilitate online publishing and collaborative authoring. The site is dedicated to knowledge sharing between professionals on the front lines of technical and scientific communication fields.
February 2005
Catching Drug Dealers: GJXDM To The Rescue
Law enforcement officials in the United States are relying on XML-based content management to aid them in busting illegal prescription and street drug dealers. Learn how the U.S. Department of Justice is implementing the Global Justice XML Data Model to help catch criminals.
January 2005
Tools and Technology: The changing vendor landscape
A brief look at the vendors of content management software tools and the changes occurring as a result of the growth of interest in content management.
December 2004
XML, DITA, Metadata, XForms And More In Our 2004 Technology Corner Archive
2004 was a busy year for those involved with content management technology-related issues. Check out the complete list of content management technology articles available in our 2004 "Technology Corner Archive".
November 2004
Learning About Content Management Tools and Technologies
While understanding both your organizational business needs and your content lifecycle is required before tackling any content management project, it also helps to understand the types of tools and technologies that are available to facilitate successful content management projects.
October 2004
The Darwin Information Typing Architecture: Avoiding Proprietary Lock-in
The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based, end-to-end architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. Created and made available by IBM, DITA helps content creators consistently structure information into discrete, modular topic chunks (e.g. reference topics, task topics, and concept topics) that can be repurposed elsewhere. Read this article by Kay Ethier and Scott Abel to learn what DITA is and how it can help you avoid proprietary lock-in.
September 2004
Metadata tools are software applications designed to assist you in building taxonomies and categorizing content. If you don't have a metadata tool, you can get started creating and managing metadata with an Excel spreadsheet.
August 2004
Connected Strategies: Customer Relationship Management Meets Content Management
For a real-world example of basic content management and customer relationship management in action, visit the [url=http://www.connectedstrategies.com]Connected Strategies[/url] web site. A service of the high tech marketing gurus at [url=http://www.bnj.com]Babcock and Jenkins[/url], this site demonstrates how web sites can provide dynamic content to site visitors based on their personal information preferences.
July 2004
Legacy Content Conversion Issues
Discover several important issues you should consider before deciding to convert legacy content to a new content-management system friendly format. Learn how automated legacy content conversion tools can help content conversion efforts -- and how they can really miss the mark! Gain insight into why consistently structured documents using semantic style tag names can make conversion easier and faster.
June 2004
Check Your XForms Online With XForms Validator
IT pros charged with implementing XForms will no doubt be interested in the beta release of this nifty online tool. It’s called the XForms Validator, an interactive, Python-powered validation tool of XForms documents of all types.
May 2004
Effective Learning Content Management with a CMS
Content management systems can manage all types of content, regardless of their intened use. There's no need to purchase a Learning Content Management product when you can, with some upfront planning and expert advice, configure a Content Management System to manage and deliver learning content.
March 2004
Content Management and the Electronic Common Technical Document (eCTD)
Managing life sciences content does not stop at the eCTD. Content management systems and eCTD tools should be interoperable and capable of ensuring approved content is the only content that ends up in the submission.
February 2004
What Is Digital Asset Management?
If managing more than words is your goal, learn how Digital Asset Management can help you facilitate the creation of innovative business, educational, and entertainment products by aggregating and reusing new and existing digital assets.
January 2004
2003 Technology Corner Articles
A complete list of all Technology Corner articles from 2003.
November 2003
CMS And GMS Systems: What's Available?
Find out where you can learn about Global Management Systems and Content Management Systems available today. An excellent starting point for those seeking to evaluate the tools landscape.
October 2003
How To Convince IT "Quality Is The Driver"
Learn how approaches like Six Sigma can help IT organizations become more accountable, by providing the means to define specific results and the tools to be able to deliver them.
September 2003
Why You Need An Information Technologist
Find out why your project team needs an information technologist and learn what skill sets and previous knowledge are required to do the job.
August 2003
Preparing For Change: New Roles, Responsibilities And Training
Content management introduces new roles and responsibilities. Find out what training and skills are needed for two emerging roles, information architects and information technologists.
July 2003
Implementing Information Models
Information models are like blueprints for documents, you shouldn't begin building without them. Find out what factors you should consider before you implement a content management system.
June 2003
Planning To Implement A Content Management System? Considerations Before You Buy
You've determined that your organization needs a content management system. Before you rush out and purchase anything, here are a few things to consider.
May 2003
There are a variety of content management software tools available to serve those with limited budgets. Discover a few of the tools that may be of interest to your organization.
April 2003
Content Management: What Does It Really Cost?
Content management isn’t cheap. However, a clear identification of your current costs and potential savings can clearly demonstrate savings for your organization if you adopt a unified content strategy and content management.
March 2003
Tool Vendors Rush To Label Products "Enterprise"
If you're confused about content management tools and the functionality they provide, you're not the only one. Learn how to avoid the marketing mumbo-jumbo and determine which products will support your content management goals.
February 2003
CMIS: A New Breed Of Content Management Systems
Need help organizing and sharing content across a variety of content management systems? If so, you might find what you're looking for in a content management integration system.