The Creation phase is the first of three classic phases of
Content Management -
Creation includes
Acquisition of content,
Aggregation of syndicated content, and
Authoring of new content.
Acquisition includes
- Native support for filetypes
- Multiple file transfers (FTP, site import)
- Migration Tools (from another CMS)
- Conversion tools (e.g.,Word to XML "chunks")
- Rights management
- Mandatory metadata tagging (force structure and semantics)
- RDF Oontology support (e.g., Dublin Core)
Aggregation includes
- Incoming syndication feeds
- Metadata management (read incoming metadata)
- Integrated Web Services (e.g., currency conversion)
- UDDI tools
Authoring includes (Editing, Templating, Tagging Tools)
- Content Element Editors (Naive and Power Users)
- - WYSIWYG Through-The-Web? Editor
- - Text-only Forms Editor
- - XML Editor
- - Spell checker
- - Content objects use templates
- - Media asset repository (images, sounds, Flash, video, etc.)
- Template Editor
- - WYSIWYG Through-The-Web?
- - Template Gallery
- - XML Editor
- Tag Editor (semantics and style)
- - Drop-down menus of all tags
- - Metadata Thesaurus
- - Taxonomies/Ontologies online
- Help online
- - Context-sensitive help
- - Documentation
- - Examples