D1.2: An Information structure to provide categories and subcategories relevant for FIDIS

FIDIS Communication Infrastructure CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (CMS)

Content Management Systems (CMS)

In general, CMS allow end-users (typically authors of some sort) to provide new content in the form of articles or multi media assets (content). The articles are typically entered as plain text, perhaps enriched with markups, such as bold, italic (structure) to indicate where other resources, such as pictures or other file-types should be placed (layout).

Figure 1: Structured Content.

The system then uses rules to style the article, which separates the display from the content. This has a number of advantages when trying to get many articles to conform to a consistent "look and feel". The system then adds the articles to a larger collection for publishing, combining the content, the structure and the layout (Figure 1). Figure 2 gives an overview of the different components of a typical CMS architecture: 

Figure 2: Architecture of a CMS