CMS Consultants
Glossary of Terms for Newcomers
Core content management terms
Non-technical Glossary Guidlines
More guidelines on the
CMS Wiki.
In specific, we're finalising what is "in scope" for the
new glossary, the thinking being to start with *30* entries,
develop those to perfection, and then move onwards from
there.
What are your thoughts on the following:
Definitely in scope
content management system
document management system
records management system
digital asset management
enterprise content management
dynamic publishing
batch publishing
content reuse
content repurposing
authoring template
publishing template
workflow
versioning
version control
single source publishing
structured authoring
web content management
Possibilities
asset-based CMS
centralised authoring
content aggregation
content audit
content migration
content syndication
content type
content element
content deployment
content preview
content virtualization
Darwin Information Typing Architecture
decentralised authoring
dynamic content
digital rights management
electronic documents & records management system (EDRMS)
JSR170
learning content management system
learning management system
metadata
metrics
mid-tier CMS
open source CMS
out-of-the-box CMS
page-based CMS
personalisation
portal
publishing models
ROI
RSS
staging server
groups
roles
Definitely out of scope
* General IT terminology (eg. API, backup,
cascading style sheet, business process, CORBA,
object oriented, DHTML, etc)
* Terminology from other fields (eg. change management,
community of practice, creative commons, DTD,
human computer interface, etc)
* General English terms (eg. annotation, approval,
business case, calendar, conversion, etc)
