Web Content Management System
Web Content Management System
Web Content Management System
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Asoke Nath 2
Department of Computer Science,
St. Xaviers College (Autonomous), Kolkata,
Pin Code-700016, West Bengal, India
Abstract: The preparation and publication of a website very much depends on the requirements of contents in a website.
The contents of websites may be very simple or complex. Contents of a website may need to manage as per requirement.
So, a content management system passes through three stage of life cycle: content, managed and publication stage. In
the present paper it is tried to study how a mathematical function can works in the three stages of web CMS. A CMS is
a web application that run on web server to help facilitate creating a website. Also it is tried to study mathematically
regarding working of database in web CMS.
Keywords: Content, CMS, web, database;
I.
INTRODUCTION
A content management system (CMS) is a system used to manage the content of a Web site. A content management
system (CMS) is a computer application that allows publishing, editing, modifying, and organizing, deleting, and
maintaining content from a central interface. Such systems of content management provide procedures to manage workflow
in a collaborative environment. Typically, a CMS consists of two elements: the content management application (CMA) and
the content delivery application (CDA).
CMS
CMA
CDA
In the Content Management application, content manager may be able to manage the creation, modification, and removal
of content from a Web site. It may happen that content manager even does not know about the knowledge of HTML
(Hypertext Markup Language) or may not be experts as a Webmaster. In the Content delivery application, website is
updated to use and CDA elements complies the information to update the website.
The features of a CMS system vary, but most include Web-based publishing, format management, revision control, and
indexing, search, and retrieval. A CMS may serve as a central repository for content, which could be, textual data,
documents, movies, pictures, phone numbers, and/or scientific data. So, all the works in CMS are functional and there are
some composite function working to develop the content management system .CMS plays an important role in the Electronic
commerce (e-commerce, or EC) which describes the buying, selling, and exchanging of products, services, and information
via computer networks, primarily the Internet. In this scenario, content management system plays an important role to allow
publishing, editing, and modifying content. Word Press,Drupal,Joomla are example of content management system .
WordPress is an open source blog software package that works exceptionally well as content management system, a blog
system, or a traditional website. Drupal is a free software package that allows anyone to easily publish, manage and organize
a wide variety of content on a website. Joomla is a content management system, which enables us to build Web sites and
powerful online applications.
A web content management system (WCMS) enables a user to create or amend a web page without the need for the requisite
technical skills. The management of content is an important issue in web content management system. Editing, managing and
publishing of a content are three pillars in the web content management system which will enhance the beauty of a web CMS
. In the present paper, it is tried to study the life cycle of a web content management system mathematically where a
function on a set plays an important role. Content is collection of information which is either created or acquired from the
given source. So, content may be considered as a set and there is need to do some functional work on the content so that a
beautiful website will be published.
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A basic content management system is comprised of templates, a programming language, a dashboard and a database. A
subsection of Content Management is Web Content Management. A Web Content Management System is a program that
helps in maintaining, controlling, changing and resembling the content on a web-page. Content management system is
working on functional dependency among contents (collection), management and publication of final modified contents.
A strategy of Web Content Management [13] may be as follows:
(i) Identifying Content requirement
(ii) Creating consistency structure content for reuse
(iii) Managing Content in a definitive source
(iv) Ensuring Content Compliers with corporate and government standards and guidelines
(v) Assembling content on demand to meet your customers need.
Keeping the above strategy a web CMS may consists of three phases in which information passes through the collection
system, where it is transformed in content components, then through the management system, a kind of complex database
where components are stored, and, lastly, through the publication system, where information is automatically transformed
into publications[2] . Web content management system can be divided into three stages:
Stage 1: Primary Stage
Stage 2: Secondary Stage
Stage 3: Final Stage /ternary stage
A. Stage 1 :Primary Stage
The etymology meaning of content is Contentum i.e. to Contain or Continere to hold together or Enclosed.
Content means everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something .In a CMS, content is data
or information embodied. Primary stage is that stage where content is prepared by collecting the data /programming code.
Content is combination of suitable programming code. In this stage information is either created or acquire from an existing
source. Depending on the source, it may or may not need to convert the information to a master format. A Content
management system template is a series of files that contain the basic layout of website or blog. These files are used in
conjunction with the selected program language and a database to publish the websites..So, primary stage in web CMS is
considered as collection of information. Mathematically,
Let Ci denotes content set in which information is either created or acquire from an existing source. i.e. Ci ={ information :
information is either created or acquired from existing source }, i=1,2,..,n. Finally, it is needed to aggregate the
information into the given system by editing it, segmenting it into chunks (or components), and adding appropriate metadata
which is a set of data that describes and gives information about other data. Metadata is commonly described as "information
about information." For Web sites, content usually has categories, keywords, authors, publishing dates, and template
assignments that control how the content is displayed and used. Metadata is a set of fields and values used to describe and
categorize content and managed objects [17].
B. Stage2 : Secondary Stage
In this stage the there may need to do some modification (if required) from the given content. This is an important stage and
this stage makes difference from the preparation of different types of websites. In this stage a content may be prepare /
manage by making appropriate combination of functional works on a given contents as per requirement.The Management
refers to the process of storing content via rules and process (or a combination of the same) - often with associated workflows
- so that the content is deemed to be managed rather than unmanaged where it is located.[18] In the web content
management system the following terms are frequently used which are as follows [14] :
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TERM
WEB CONTENT EDITING
M EANING
CREATING AND CHANGING WEB CONTENT AND ACCOMPANYING METADATA
publication set.
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[10]. Web Development Using Content Management System Rushabhkumar H. Baldaniya, Prof. H.J.Baldaniya,
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journal of applied research, vol.5 , issue8, August 2015.
[12]. http://www.aiim.org/What-is-Web-CMS-WCM-System-Content-Management.
[13]. http://image.slidesharecdn.com/wcms2009-090409080703-phpapp02/95/wcms2009open-source-web-contentmanagement-system-18-728.jpg?cb=1239264458
[14]. http://image.slidesharecdn.com/referencemodelecm0-160207195832/95/reference-model-enterprise-contentmanagement-15-638.jpg?cb=1454875725
[15]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content_management_system
[16]. http://www.webpagemistakes.ca/how-content-management-system-works/
[17]. http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/the-importance-of-metadata-in-content-management-009746.php
[18]. http://www.slideshare.net/StephenWilliams/what-is-a-content-management-system?from_action=save
[19]. http://www.slideshare.net/smtch/web-content-management
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