terms and definitions - week 4

Terms selection – 2

Information design

the detailed planning of specific information that is provided to a particular audience to meet specific objectives. It includes information content design, page design, Web site design, illustration design, typography decisions, and so forth.

Ref: http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid11_gci214367,00.html

The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)

An XML-based, end-to-end architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. This architecture consists of a set of design principles for creating "information-typed" modules at a topic level and for using that content in delivery modes such as online help and product support portals on the Web.

Ref: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-dita1/

Metadata

Metadata is structured data which describes the characteristics of a resource. It shares many similar characteristics to the cataloguing that takes place in libraries, museums and archives. A metadata record consists of a number of pre-defined elements representing specific attributes of a resource, and each element can have one or more values

Ref:http://www.library.uq.edu.au/iad/ctmeta4.html

Semantic Web

the extension of the World Wide Web that enables people to share content beyond the boundaries of applications and websites. It has been described in rather different ways: as a utopic vision, as a web of data, or merely as a natural paradigm shift in our daily use of the Web. Most of all, the Semantic Web has inspired and engaged many people to create innovative semantic technologies and applications.

Ref:http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Main_Page

Web content management system (WCMS) is content management system (CMS) software, usually implemented as a Web application, for creating and managing HTML content. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and their associated images). A WCMS facilitates content creation, content control, editing, and many essential Web maintenance functions.

Usually the software provides authoring (and other) tools designed to allow users with little or no knowledge of programming languages or markup languages to create and manage content with relative ease of use.

A WCMS allows non-technical users to make changes to an existing website with little or no training. A WCMS typically requires an experienced coder to set up and add features, but is primarily a Web-site maintenance tool for non-technical administrators.

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content_management_system

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