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CMS Glossary
Caching
Caching is a process of saving a copy of something (a web page in the case of ContentManagement) in a fast server closer to the requesting agency than the originating source server.
Cascading Style Sheet
Cascading Style Sheets are the preferred way to add styles (fonts, sizes, colors, spacing) to web documents.
Check In Check Out
Checking out a piece of Content puts a file lock on the content so someone else does not change it before the current user s changes are saved. A good system tells a new user who has the content, and provides means (email, IM/Chat?, phone numbers) to contact the current user to release it. They also have administrative override privileges to seize content.
Content
Content is the intellectual capital of an organization. It is information, separated from its presentation. Content is the information contained in, for example, a product brochure, a user manual, a web site, a Braille menu, or one of many other Information+Product types.
Content Management
Broadly speaking, Content Management describes a process that allows people to more easily create and update content, especially on their websites.
Content Management System
A Content Management System (CMS) is a software tool designed to help content managers create, manage, and publish their content. The CMS uses a database to track the location of, and relationships among, content elements in a central repository or file system.
Content Reuse
The practice of using existing components of content to develop new content (See Information+Product); the process of linking to an element of reusable content. Content reuse is a primary building block in a Unified+Content+Strategy. In order to effectively reuse content, it must be properly structured.
Content Template
A Content Template is the framework for a structured page. It is the structure for a Compound Document and a Page Architecture.
Content Versioning System
A Content Versioning System keeps dated or serialized copies of all the different versions of a piece of content. This allows the scheduling of content on and off the web.
Dashboard
Dashboard is a popular buzzword for the main Business Process Management interface for an Enterprise Information System. Today it is usualy a web page, driven by middleware using Web Services to contact many applications and their databases.
Digital Asset Management
Digital asset management (DAM) systems support the storage, retrieval and reuse of digital objects within an organisation. DAM differs from Document Management and Content Management in its focus on multimedia resources, such as images, video and audio. DAM also has a strong focus on Digital Rights Management.
Dynamic Content
Content that is assembled automatically to meet users specific needs, providing them with exactly what they are looking for, when they are looking for it, and in the format they need. Dynamic content exists as a series of information objects, assembled on demand in response to user actions, requirements, or preferences.
Dynamic Publishing
Dynamic publishing (also known as fried publishing) describes web pages dynamically generated by a CMS.
