Advanced Content Management System in Murdoch Research Institute

1. Content Management System (Cms)

A CMS is used for the control and editing of content. Content includes electronic files, images and video based media, audio files, electronic documents and web text. The main concept behind a CMS is to make these files available for editing between offices or over the Internet. A CMS is often used to archive documents as well. Many companies use a CMS to organise and store files in a public forum and share content with others easily using server based technology. As the CMS is available on the Internet, it is available to the administrators and customers across the whole globe at all times as long as there is Internet access (Ort, 2000). Web Content Management Systems are mainly used to control and publish text based documents likes articles, text documents and information. A CMS is normally able to provide the following features (Ort, 2000):

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  Import and create documents, videos and other imagery.

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  Identify the main users and their roles within the content management system.

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  An ability to assign certain roles and rights within the document management system and across differing content types and categories.

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  Define management and system workflows, definitions, tasks and tie in event messaging so that managers of the content are notified of changes to specific content.

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  Ability to record, track and manage many versions of the same content or files with versioning.

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  An ability to publish content to a centralised content archive to facilitate greater access to the content. More importantly, with time, this repository becomes a vital element of the CMS system, and incorporates search and retrieval methods.