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Glossary of Terms for Newcomers

Core content management terms


Non-technical Glossary Guidlines

More guidelines on the CMS Wiki.

In specific, we're finalising what is "in scope" for the new glossary, the thinking being to start with *30* entries, develop those to perfection, and then move onwards from there.

What are your thoughts on the following:

Definitely in scope

content management system
document management system
records management system
digital asset management
enterprise content management
dynamic publishing
batch publishing
content reuse
content repurposing
authoring template
publishing template
workflow
versioning
version control
single source publishing
structured authoring
web content management
Possibilities

asset-based CMS
centralised authoring
content aggregation
content audit
content migration
content syndication
content type
content element
content deployment
content preview
content virtualization
Darwin Information Typing Architecture
decentralised authoring
dynamic content
digital rights management
electronic documents & records management system (EDRMS)
JSR170
learning content management system
learning management system
metadata
metrics
mid-tier CMS
open source CMS
out-of-the-box CMS
page-based CMS
personalisation
portal
publishing models
ROI
RSS
staging server
groups
roles
Definitely out of scope

* General IT terminology (eg. API, backup,
cascading style sheet, business process, CORBA,
object oriented, DHTML, etc)

* Terminology from other fields (eg. change management,
community of practice, creative commons, DTD,
human computer interface, etc)

* General English terms (eg. annotation, approval,
business case, calendar, conversion, etc)

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Bob Doyle, CM Pros Founder

Bob Doyle has founded another content management community specializing in the new Darwin Information Typing Architecture standard.

DITA is the fastest path to XML-based component content management.
A DITA editor and the DITA Open Toolkit form a complete end-to-end content publishing system.

Bob has launched six new websites in support of DITA, starting with a members organization modeled on CM Pros.

DITA Users - members pay $100/year for access to a workspace folder, a web-based editor, and a server-based version of the DITA Open Toolkit that allows them to author and build DITA files, then publish them to multiple outputs including web (HTML), print (PDF), and Online Help.

DITA Blog - a group blog for DITA information developers.

DITA Infocenter - a searchable knowledge base of specifications for DITA Users.

DITA News - a mailing list, blog aggregation, and a DITA newsletter.

DITA Tutor - self-paced and instructor-led tutorials and workshops.

DITA Wiki - resources with comments and discussions for DITA Users.



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