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Our definitions of content, how we relate to it and how we manage it has changed significantly over the last decade or so. Blogs, wikis, personal websites, social networking, bookmarks and a host of similar phenomenon has given us a set of tools to author, discover, share and review content. We have changed as individuals [...]
If you were starting out on your journey of content management and were planning to setup a content management system, how would you choose the appropriate one? If you wanted to start a blog or have an organization wide wiki, the category you would look for is easy – look for a blog environment or a wiki environment. However as architects, we often have to make decisions that are more complex – where a variety of functionality is required.
This is a short article on the Community Created Content and the problems associated with the ownership and modeling of such content.
In the real world, children survive their parents – but, in computing, everything is conter-intuitive. Parents are supposed to outlive their “children” in computer science (remember all those tree data structures, and forking unix processes, orphaned processes and so on). This is the problem when it comes to the content. How do we deal with “orphaned” content – meaning, if the software (problem-two), or the user (in the problem-one) who created some data+content no longer exists, what happens to that content? I think this is an important content management challenge that we have to solve quickly in the coming years.
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