Content Management System
"A Content Management System - CMS is a tool that enables many features even for non technical staff to create, edit, manage and finally publish 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."
To fully understand what it is a CMS does, we have to first define :
a) what it is we are referring to when we talk about content
b) what it is we understand under its management and
c) what do we mean by a system.
b) what it is we understand under its management and
c) what do we mean by a system.
What is Content?
Content is in essence, any type or 'unit' of digital information. It can be text, images, graphics, video, sound, documents, records etc - or in other words - anything that is likely to be managed in an electronic format.
What is Content Management?
Content Management is effectively the management of the content described above, by combining rules, process and/or workflows in such a way that its electronic storage is deemed to be 'managed' rather than 'un-managed'.
What is the CM System?
The system itself is definable as a tool or combination or tools that facilitate the efficient and effective production of the desired 'output' using the managed content.
