CMS

Content Management System

In this short article, I would like to share some definitions of Content Management System, taken from various internet sources. Here are five different definitions of CMS:

“CMS for information delivery systems, including web based systems, that organizes the content of the information separately, from the appearance of the presented information. The pages of the information are organized into documents and borders. Each border and document is further divided into outline, organizing the content, and a template organizing the appearance. Individual content is stored in a native format enabling creators and maintainers to use familiar software tools for creation and maintenance.   When retrieving the information, an assembly process gathers the content in accordance with the document’s outline and formats the content in accordance with the document’s template. The data structure allows triggers to be associated with content such that automated maintenance procedure can be implemented based on the activation of the triggers”. (Baxter et. al., 2002)

“A content management system (CMS) is a system used to manage the content of a Web site. Typically, a CMS consists of two elements: the content management application (CMA) and the content delivery application (CDA). The CMA element allows the content manager or author, who may not know Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), to manage the creation, modification, and removal of content from a Web site without needing the expertise of a Webmaster. The CDA element uses and compiles that information to update the Web site. The features of a CMS system vary, but most include Web-based publishing, format management, revision control, and indexing, search, and retrieval.” (Svarre, 2000)

“A software application used to upload, edit, and manage content displayed on a website. A content management system can perform a variety of different tasks for a website including regulating when content is displayed, how many times the content is shown to a specific user, and managing how the content connects or interacts with other elements of the website. This software also enables less technical individuals to manage content on a website easily without having an extensive coding background.” (WebFinance, Inc, 2012)

 “A (web) content management system allows a number of people to maintain a website using a simple web-browser-based interface (instead of manually authoring webpages). Content management systems generally consist of a number of templates corresponding to standard ‘types’ of information, for example: event promotion, staff profiles, press releases, and product listings.”(Veen, 2004)

 “A CMS is a tool that enables a variety of (centralised) technical and (de-centralised) non technical staff to create, edit, manage and finally publish (in a number of formats) a variety of content (such as text, graphics, video, documents etc), whilst being constrained by a centralised set of rules, process and workflows that ensure coherent, validated electronic content.” (Contentmanager.eu.com, 2011)

Works Cited:

Baxter, Sarah et al. “United States Patent”. March 12, 2002. March 12, 2012. <http://www.google.co.id/patents?hl=id&lr=&vid=USPAT6356903&id=jFoJAAAAEBAJ&oi=fnd&dq=content+management+system+sarah+baxter+et+al&printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q=content%20management%20system%20sarah%20baxter%20et%20al&f=false>.

Contentmanager. “What is Content Management”. 2000 – 2011. Contentmanager.eu.com. <http://www.contentmanager.eu.com/cms.htm>.

Svarre, Klaus. “Content Management System (CMS)”. December 2000. SearchSOA. March 12, 2012. <http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/definition/content-management-system>.

Veen, Jeffrey. “The Motive Web Design Glossary – Content Management System (CMS)”. October 22, 2004. Motive Glossary. March 12, 2012. <http://www.motive.co.nz/glossary/cms.php>.

WebFinance, Inc. “Content Management System (CMS)”. 2012. Business Dictionary.com. March 12, 2012. <http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/content-management-system-CMS.html#ixzz1oxiPOnqn>.