Content Creation

Definition

Content Creation

the content management task during which new potential content is produced

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Content Creation is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Task
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical responsibilities of Content Creation are to:

• Create, digitize, and store new potential content that:
  • Meets its requirements.
  • Conforms to its architectures.

Preconditions

Content creation typically can begin when the following preconditions hold:

• The construction phase has started.
• The initial conventions for content creation (e.g., guidelines, standards) have been produced during the process engineering activity.
• The following documents are largely complete and are relatively stable:
  • System Requirements Specification
  • Glossary
  • Domain Model Document
  • Information Architecture Document
  • Database Design Document
  • Human Interface Design Document
• The content management team has been adequately staffed with content creators who have been adequately trained in content creation.

Completion Criteria

Content creation is typically complete when the following postconditions hold:

• All required content has been created.
• The retirement phase has started.

Steps

Content creation typically involves the following teams performing the following steps in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Content creator(s) of the content management team:
  • Understand the new ordered content by reading and understanding the associated:
    • Informational (data) requirements in the:
      • System Requirements Specification
      • Glossary
      • Domain Model Document
    • Information architecture:
      • Information Architecture Document
    • Content design:
      • Database Design Document
      • Human Interface Design Document
  • Create the potential new content:
    • Textual content.
    • Audio content.
    • Graphical content.
    • Video content.
  • Digitize the content:
    • Digitize the content (e.g., scan in artwork and convert analog audio files to digital).
    • Translate content into the proper format (e.g., graphical files into .gif, .jpeg, and .png MIME types).
    • Minimize the file size of the content (without significantly degrading quality).
  • Store content in the raw content database.
  • Notify the content entry clerk that the content is ready to be entered into the content management system.

Techniques

Content creation typically can be performed using the following techniques:

• Conventions (e.g., standards and guidelines for digitizing content, minimizing file size and quality loss).

Work Products

Content creation typically results in the production of the following work products:

• Data Components:
  • Raw Potential Content:
    • Textual content.
    • Numerical content.
    • Audio content.
    • Graphical content.
    • Video content.
  • Content Metadata

Guidelines

• Content creation should be performed iteratively, incrementally, and in parallel with most of the other content management tasks.
• Content creation may not be necessary if content can be reused (e.g., migrated from internal legacy content sources or acquired from external content sources).