[Sigia-l] [Seminar] - Content modelling for IAs; IA Summit Pre-Conference, Montreal Canada

[Margaret Hanley]

<Please excuse the cross-promotion>

IA Summit Pre-Conference, Montreal Canada
Friday 4th March 2005, 8:30 - 12:30
Early $250/Late $325

Content modelling for IAs; how to make the most of your
content in your content management system

Presented by: Sandra Green, Margaret Hanley and Karen
Loasby

Once a content management system has been bought by an
organisation, many IAs are in the unenviable position of
trying to fit existing content into it; without a process
or method on how to actually do it.

This workshop will take information architects through the
process of modelling content (both existing and new) to
make the most of the features of the content management
system. The BBC IA team of Margaret, Sandra and Karen have
successfully created content models that allow the content
to be re-used, shared and published across platforms. We
will take IAs through our process; share our learnings and
teach you via hands-on exercises to identify content
genres, objects and collections; and how to create and
manage them. This is an intensive hands-on course designed
to provide an IA or content producer with methods and
insight on how to model content for content management
systems; using exercises, brainstorms and discussion. 

Core IA issues addressed
ľ Content management systems
ľ Content modelling


Target audiences
Information architects and content producers implementing
content management systems within their organisation

Content covered
ľ Introduction to content management systems
ľ Business reasons and ROI for modelling content
ľ Choosing a content management system from an IA
perspective
ľ Page or object - what should I model and why?
ľ Modelling from existing content exercise
ľ Content genres
ľ Content objects and collections
ľ From content model to data model
ľ XML name spaces; RDF and TopicMaps
ľ Integration with the system
ľ Site organisation vs. metadata
ľ Templates
ľ Managing your content  - migrating, expiring, deleting
content

Audience learnings
Identifying the right type of content model for their
organisation, content and content management system
Learn detailed methods like
ľ Content audits
ľ Content analysis
ľ Creating content models
ľ Creating data models
ľ Collection development policies

http://www.iasummit.org/2005/preconferencedescrip.htm#modelling