Markup and Content
CMS
Definition
What CMS Means
CMS stands for
Content Management System
A conventional CMS manages whole items: a page, a post, a file. That is exactly right for a website and wrong for a technical library, where the same procedure has to appear in six deliverables and stay identical in all of them.
The common failure is asking a marketing CMS and its media library to do a document management job. They were built for different problems, and the seams show at about the point the library reaches a few thousand controlled documents.
Also written: content management system
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Related Terms
A system that manages content as components rather than documents, tracking each piece, its versions, its relationships and where it is used.
DMSA system managing whole documents as controlled objects, with versions, approvals, permissions and an audit trail of who received what.
CSDBThe managed repository at the center of an S1000D program, holding every data module once and assembling publications from them on demand.
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