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Content Structures, Organization, and Processes for Localized Content Management

Authors:
Hans-Werner Sehring

Keywords: content management,web site management,multilingual content management,multilinguality,localization,internationalization,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 both 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 modeling context put an emphasis on different content management properties. 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 master the requirements of multilingual content management within the framework of a common meta model. This allows content modeling without consideration of CMS product properties. This way, it takes away constraints from content modeling and it removes dependencies to content management system products.

Pages: 211 to 220

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2017. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 31, 2017

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2628