[Sigia-l] maintaining a content inventory

[Seth Earley]

Managing content data for a migration would likely require integration with
the content management application.  It's not just the metadata that you are
tracking but the actual content assets, correct?

Schemalogic Schemaserver would not have this functionality off the shelf.  I
would also say that Factiva's Synaptica product, though a very good taxonomy
management tool would not necessarily have this functionality out of the
box.  Both tools have strengths and weaknesses and are good at certain
aspects of taxonomies and thesauri but it sounds more like you are tracking
assets and metadata and requiring a transformation from one repository to
another.

A company that I was following a couple of years ago is Cambridge Docs
(http://www.cambridgedocs.com) I just took a look at their web site and it
looks like they are evolving their product.

Their approach is to convert documents to XML and tag them during the
conversion process.  These tagged documents can then be imported into your
content management system with metadata applied.

It sounds like you are inventorying content and tagging for a later
conversion or import.  It may make sense to convert the content and apply
metadata prior to the migration.

Are you also trying to manage metadata terms independently of content?

Seth Earley
Earley & Associates, Inc
781-444-0287
781-820-8080 cell
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-----Original Message-----
From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org]On
Behalf Of wjd at mindspring.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:36 PM
To: SIGIA SIGIA
Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] maintaining a content inventory


I suggest you also take a look at Factiva Taxonomy and
their newly-acquired product Synaptica.  Factiva acquired
Synapse (the folks who brought you the Taxonomy Warehouse)
last summer, and with it Synaptica, "Enterprise-class vocabulary
and metadata management ...."

http://www.factiva.com/products/taxonomy/synaptica.asp

Joe Davidson
wjd at mindspring.com
212-984-2209


-----Original Message-----
>From: "Everett, Andy" <EveretA at wsdot.wa.gov>
>Sent: Feb 14, 2006 12:21 PM
>To: 'Eric Scheid' <eric.scheid at ironclad.net.au>, sigia l <sigia-l at asis.org>
>Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] maintaining a content inventory
>
>If you are looking for metadata management software, you might want to look
>at schemalogic's schemaserver (www.schemalogic.com). If Gary Carlson is
>lurking on this listserv, he can tell you more about it. This product can
>manage metadata schemas and controlled vocabularies.
>
>Andy Everett
>Metadata Administrator
>Namespace Coordinator
>Washington State Department of Transportation
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf
>Of Eric Scheid
>Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 4:16 PM
>To: sigia l
>Subject: [Sigia-l] maintaining a content inventory
>
>
>A client has asked us to recommend a software solution for the ongoing
>management of the data from a content inventory. This data is not just "per
>page", but is to include any sub-assets (eg. photos or maps, content
links),
>and is to also include a raft of classifications across multiple thesauri
>(eg. subject codes, ASIC industry codes, AGLS schema).
>
>The content inventory data is to ultimately be used to manage a content
>migration to a new site (from multiple disparate sites), and to track any
>content changes post-inventory and pre-migration.
>
>I'm betting there is nothing much "off the shelf" here. Have you heard of
>anything suitable?
>
>e.
>