Metadata for Content Management helps novice and experienced content managers better understand the design and use of metadata, taxonomy, policy and workflow for digital content systems.
- Intro
- What Made the Content System so Bad?
- Taxonomy, Metadata, Tags and Controlled Vocabularies
- The Software System Perspective
- The taxonomy tree
- Field filters as controlled vocabularies
- Tags
- Metadata schema
- Location vs. attributes
- The Software System Perspective
- Content System Advantages
- Taxonomy Design from Scratch
- Envision Organization
- Real-world Taxonomy Examples
- Determine Your Terms
- Determine the Scope of Your Terms
- Outward from the Root
- Inferred Meaning through Hierarchy
- Diving Too Deep
- Derived Controlled Vocabularies
- Tag-test a Sample Collection
- Metadata Field Considerations
- Reverse-engineering the Search
- Single vs. Multiple Metadata Field Schemas
- Structured Data vs. Unstructured Data
- Metadata consistency
- Pre-localized values
- Clearer reporting
- Reliable data exchange
- Data validation
- Data updates
- Unstructured data that adds details
- Metadata Field Types
- Mandatory Field Values
- Field Schema Layering
- Adopting a Metadata Standard
- Layering metadata standards
- Standards as a starting point for discussion
- Embedding Metadata into Distributed Files
- Define Some Policy
- What Content Management Policy Looks Like
- Adapting Existing Policy
- Policy Reviews and Revisions
- Policy Example Questions
- Section: Use of Content
- Section: Tagging
- Section: Archived Content
- Additional Policy Considerations
- System Considerations
- Adding Content
- Editing Content
- Deleting Content
- Editing Taxonomies
- Editing System Configuration
- User Reports and Inquiries
- The Value of Synonyms
- Synonyms in Practice
- Slippery Synonyms
- Localization Considerations
- The Need for True Multi-language Support
- User interface language
- Unintentional homonyms
- Download options
- Controlling the Localization Workflow
- Localization policy
- Localizing newly added content
- Localization updates
- Localization improvements
- The Need for True Multi-language Support
- Workflow Metadata
- Automated Workflows
- Human vs. Machine
- Automated Manual Workflows
- Deriving Metadata Requirements
- Common and Useful Workflows
- The notification workflow
- Review and approval workflows
- Verifications of taxonomy assignments and metadata changes
- User-flagged errors, updates or reports
- Managing massive tagging projects
- Auto-tagging
- Adding human resources
- Tagging in concentric circles
- Launch plan for an incomplete system
- Metadata and Taxonomy Reviews
- Future Metadata
- Asking Experts
- Fuzzy Logic means Fuzzy Metadata
- Making Metadata Intriguing
- Multiple Metadata Profiles
- The Value of SME Verification and Opinion
- Everything becomes a Linked Object
- Algorithms vs. Education
- Summary
- Thanks and Next Steps
- About the Author
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