Content Design
- Content Design
- the
content management
task during which the
content is designed and associated templates and
transformation software are developed
As illustrated in the preceding figure, Content Design is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:
- Type: Concrete
- Superclass: Task
- Subclasses:
The typical responsibilities of Content Design are to:
- Identify and define the different kinds of content.
- Identify and define the target users of these kinds of
content.
- Develop templates for entering new content.
- Develop transformation software for entering acquired or
migrated content.
- Define expiration dates for content as well as what will
happen to the content when it expires (e.g., archived,
deleted).
Content design typically can begin when the following
preconditions hold:
Content design is typically complete when the following
postconditions hold:
- All required external content has been acquired.
- The
retirement phase has started.
Content design typically involves the following teams
performing the following steps in an iterative, incremental,
parallel, and time-boxed manner:
-
Content Management Team:
- Determine the need for new content by reading and
understanding the associated:
- Informational (data) requirements in the:
- Information architecture:
- Content design:
- Identify and define the different kinds of
content.
- Identify and define the users of the different kinds of
content.
- Develop templates for entering new content into the raw
content database.
Content design can typically be performed using the
following techniques:
- Design Patterns
- Conventions (e.g., standards and guidelines for content
design).
- Reusable Templates
Content design typically results in the production of the
following work products:
- Content defininitions
- Content templates
- Content/User Matrices
- Content design should be performed iteratively,
incrementally, and in parallel with other content management
tasks.