Content management

The Content management (in English Content Enterprise Management, ECM) aims at managing the whole of the contents of a company. It is a question of taking into account information in electronic form, which is not structured, like the electronic Documents, in opposition to those already structured in the Databases.

As example, one will be able to manage the whole of information of a file customer: mails paper, emails, Fax, Contract S, etc, in same a infrastructure.

Stake X

In the economy of immaterial the, one must be able to manage electronic informations of any nature. The passage to the Standard S IAS/IFRS request which one enters of information touching with the immaterial Capital of the Entreprise. It is thus necessary to structure the Donnée S of the companies, which are at the base of the Création of value.

A recent study of CIGREF of 2006 watch which it is necessary to create a reference frame so that the Donnée S are reliable and auditables.

See: All the sectors of the economy are concerned with content management

Content management is one of the building sites of the Ingénierie of knowledge. The qualification of the contents must be done starting from a rigorous analysis of the Métadonnée S, by holding a Registre of the metadata.

Field of application

Content management aims at covering the whole of the life cycle of not-structured information: its collection or captures, its organization, its use, its publication and its provision, its Archivage at ends of Gestion of the proof.

There exists a great number of Management systems of contents, according to the Besoin S for the user S. content management aims at making converge different the technologies available in many fields:

the GED or DM: electronic Management of the documents;
WCM (Content Web Management);
the PREJUDICE (DIGITAL Asset Management or multi-media management of documents);
the Records management or electronic management of the recordings;
the management of the emails.
the Workflow

This convergence must thus allow the user S Interagir with the Information not structured in an efficient way and effective, while offering opportunities so that the Information and the process being attached are in conformity to it with the Loi S and payments governing this information, in a sector where the Droit is in perpetual evolution (see Droit of data processing).

Specifications

In the field of the contents of Training, the SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Metadata) is a succession of technical specifications which allows the systems Apprentissage in line to find, import, divide, re-use, and export the contents of training, in a standardized way . This continuation of specifications is based on Métadonnée S.