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CMS Glossary
Enterprise Content Management
There are many definitions of the term "enterprise content management" (ECM). The general consensus, however, is that ECM systems encompass a number of the following elements:
Web Content Management (WCM or WCMS)
Document Management (DM as native filetypes)
Records Management (RM indexing and retrieval)
Digital Image Management? (documents and records > images)
Digital Asset Management (DAM especially multimedia files)
Archiving? (Offline Retention? or Destruction)
Global Navigation
Global Navigation describes the Navigation links? that appear on every page of a website, sometimes accomplished with a separate frame, especially along the top or banner of the page.
Key Word
In content management, keywords are the metadata tags that classify a document into the system s categories.
In HTML web pages, a
Local Navigation
Local Navigation describes the Navigation links? that appear in a major section of a website (a subsite or microsite), usually along the left side of the page.
Mailing List
The Mailing List is the major tool supporting a Community Of Interest. Content consists of the individual emails to the lists. This content is archived in a Repository that can be viewed by author, subject, date, and discussion thread. They are generally not indexed and searchable.
Metadata
Meta Data is descriptive data that is attached to an object (element) that allows a piece of Content to be more accurately indexed, retrieved, or processed. It describes the content, and might provide optional information like a caption, abstract, or keywords for search engines. It could include a creation date, publication date, and expiry date.
News Group
A News Group is part of the original Usenet, with recognizable domain names, like sci.lang.translation. They are available via the NNTP news protocol (the news server setting in your browser), or through web-based interfaces like deja.com, recently acquired by Google, which has the best multilingual support of any web search engine. Newsgroups may be completely open or moderated. Unmoderated groups are notorious for postings which may be completely off-topic (OT) and add a lot of noise to these important information channels.
Open Source CMS
Open-source content management systems have been steadily growing in popularity, driven in part by the success of systems such as Linux and Apache. They are now in a position to offer a viable alternative to commercial products, and organisations should consider open-source options when evaluating content management systems.
Portal
A portal can contain content, but portal content is usually there as an introduction or lead-in to more similar information on another page.
Portlet
A portlet is any Content Element that appears in some block in a portal. The term comes by analogy comes from applets and servlets (which might be providing the portlet content via a WebService). So it is especially apt when the content provides a mini-application like a calendar or login interface.
