A META Group analyst forecasts that "everybody will have a content problem,
if not today, then tomorrow." This forecast is echoed by scores of analysts
from Jupiter to WestLB Panmure: e-business and corporate publishing are
fundamentally not possible without sophisticated content management. When you
consider that most analysts regard anything from a pricelist to a fax as
content that can (and should) be managed in a corporation, it's not difficult
to see the enormity of the content management problem facing us. This article
tackles the following topics: Managing content defined Architecture and
ingredients Selecting a system Role of XML in content management Building a
suitable organization Creating an information map Going "live" as efficiently
as possible It deals wi... (more)
This article describes how an essential precursor to any SOA implementation
is a data modeling exercise that integrates all underlying data models,
focusing more on the business requirements than on system- and
application-specific requirements.
Integrating data models in a complex enterprise can be difficult because the
IT landscape often reveals massive duplication and redundancy. Refin... (more)
This article describes the increasing importance of metadata in today's
service-oriented application landscape, and the consequent fragility inherent
in architectures when faced with change.
When we reach the point at which metadata drives the development and
maintenance of services, evolving business requirements force us to break
open and evolve our metadata first, and then to address t... (more)
XML is object without source. There can be no development tools for XML until
we find a way of creating source code.
"There's no such thing as an XML application." A strong statement, perhaps,
but what do we mean when we talk about an XML application? Is a publishing
system that relies on XML to do its work an XML application? Can we apply the
term to a B2B marketplace where all the proce... (more)
The golden rule of a content management system is this: the day you take it
to production is the day you start work on the next version of the system.
Content contributors will submit change requests for the document structures
and input formats, publishers will ask for more metadata to enable more
sophisticated delivery of content, and editors will ask for better workflow.
And you may dis... (more)
Jim Gabriel has authored tens of thousands of pages of technical documentation, ranging from entry-level tutorial material to programmers' reference manuals. He is literate in XML, SGML, and XSL, among others.
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