Glossary of Terms

The CMS Consultants Glossary contains over 270 definitions for technical terms used every day in the field of content management. Content management is a broad field, encompassing professionals from technical writers and graphic artists to information architects and user experience engineers.

The Glossary attempts to provide complete explanations of terms from each of these sub-disciplines to help CMS Consultants be generalists in a world of specialists.

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As an added convenience, we provide links to over 20 online glossaries with terms relevant for content management, so you can extend your understanding of a particular term.

AIIM ECM Definitions About 50 terms from the vendors association for Enterprise Content Management.

www.aiim.org

Audience Dialogue Glossaries Several glossaries for media, user research, evaluation questionnaires, and statistics.

www.audiencedialogue.org

Cimtech Glossary Terms for document management, records management, and content management.

cimtech.co.uk

CMS Glossary (also from CMS Wiki).

cmsglossary.com

contentmanager.net Glossary About 50 terms.

contentmanager.net

Digital Object Identifier System Glossary.

DOI.org

Enterprise Content Management 365.

contentmanagement365.com

evolt (Project Management Glossary).

evolt.org

FOLDOC (free online dictionary of computing).

foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk

Hartman Communicatie (in Dutch).

hartman-communicatie.nl

IA Wiki (information architecture).

iawiki.net

Johns Hopkins.

jhmcis.jhmi.edu

Libertas Solutions.

libertas-solutions.com

liveSTORYBOARD.

www.livestoryboard.com

Motive Resources Internet Glossary.

www.motive.co.nz

National Electronic Library for Health (KM Glossary).

www.nelh.nhs.uk

OneLook.

onelook.com

Rockley Group.

managingenterprisecontent.com

SitePoint.

sitepoint.com

Usability First.

usabilityfirst.com

Visual Integrity.

visual-integrity.com

What Is (TechTarget).

whatis.com

Wikipedia. Goes to definition of content management to start.

wikipedia.org

Word IQ. Goes to definition of content management to start.

wordiq.com

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