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Area 1: Content Management and Content Processing
The overwhelming growth of information in almost all segments of modern society has led to a
greater modularization of information, in order to facilitate its reuse and to
increase its return of investment. Detailed encoding of information elements
has been an essential prerequisite for achieving this goal. A widely accepted
way to achieve such detailing is the use of XML. With the advance of XML,
information has been split up in ever-smaller components, which are
used as bases for all forms of further publication, mostly through the
Internet. These components are shaped as 'intelligent objects', which are
encoded in such a way that both humans and software packages understand their
meaning, and enriched with 'metadata' that describe creation, potential usage
and relations with other elements.
The term Content Management is used to describe both the management
of the content within these intelligent objects (e.g. the management of the
authoring process of a report) as well as the management of the objects themselves
in the context of a larger system (e.g. the composition of a Web site). In a
technical sense Content Management comprises the technologies used to create,
capture, customize, retrieve, deliver, and manage enterprise content to support
business processes. The Master’s program CKE emphasizes the integration
of this technical side of content management with human aspects such as individual,
enterprise-wide and inter-organizational requirements and functionality, usability, semantics and
personalization. Together, these cognitive and social aspects are referred
to as Content Processing.
These topics are addressed in the course Content Design: It takes
the perspective of the content developer, emphasizing the process of content
creation, with topics such as authoring, information mapping, advanced data
structures and design patterns, hypermedia models, animation, and (semi-) automatic
content publishing, with special attention to mechanisms for personalizing the
presentation of information.
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