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Localized Content Management with the Minimalistic Meta Modeling Language

Authors:
Hans-Werner Sehring

Keywords: content management,web site management,multilingual content management,multilinguality,context-awareness

Abstract:
Content management systems are in widespread use for document production. In particular, we see the pervasive application of web content management systems for web sites. These systems serve authors that produce content and web site users that perceive content in the form of documents. Today, one focus lies on the consideration of the context of the web site user. Context is considered in order to serve users’ information needs best. Many applications, e.g., marketing sites, focus on making the user experience most enjoyable. To this end, content is directed at the users’ environmental and cultural background. This includes, first and foremost, the native language of the user. Practically, all respective web sites are offered in multiple languages and, therefore, multilingual content management is very common today. Content and its structure need to be prepared by authors for the different contexts, languages in this case. Contemporary content management system products, though, each follow different approaches to model context. There is no single agreed-upon approach because the different ways of multilingual content management have different focuses. This paper discusses different aspects of multilingual content management and publication. The Minimalistic Meta Modeling Language is well suited for context-aware content management. This paper demonstrates how this modeling language can be used to support a universal approach to multilingual content management. This approach allows content modeling without consideration of product properties. This way, it takes away constraints from content modeling and it removes dependencies to content management system products.

Pages: 8 to 13

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: February 19, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4162

ISBN: 978-1-61208-533-3

Location: Athens, Greece

Dates: from February 19, 2017 to February 23, 2017