content architecture at work
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The Content Architecture In Action presentation given at Intelligent Content 2014 in the San Jose, CA. It covers the why, what and how to apply content architecture to enable digital and content agility within your organisation.TRANSCRIPT
Content Architecture “At Work”
Cleve Gibbon (@cleveg) CTO, Cognifide
…to create digital properties at the speed of Wordpress
the scale of Salesforce, with the simplicity of Google.
Just over five years ago, a customer asked me, to give them the ability to…
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Content Management Ecosystem
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Content Architecture
Why What How
Why content architecture?To enable digital and content agility.
Digital ContentCustomer Experiences
Aggregation API
Archiving Audit
Authoring Distribution
Inventory Lifecycle
Localisation Management
Measurement Modelling
Personalisation Search
Syndication Taxonomy Translation Workflow
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Analytics Automation Campaigns CMS CRM eCommerce Email Mobility Multi-Channel
Digital Agility
• Train and tracks are tightly coupled systems that are highly efficient.
• Cars and the road are loosely coupled systems the provide more flexibility.
• Digital agility requires organisations to place more value on flexibility.
• Companies must experiment, to learn, to optimise customer experience.
Source: http://dachisgroup.com/wrangling-complexity-the-service-oriented-company/
typical starting point for digital transformations
first step towards intelligent processes Intelligent processes
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Liquid ContentDon't get set into one form. Adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. !Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. !Now water can flow or it can crash. !Be water, my friend. !Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey (2000)
Content Management Challenges
• More content through increased interactions
• Increased complexity through experimentation
• Fewer resources to manage more content
• Multiple channels along which content must flow
• Vast amounts of content trapped within systems
• Rate of production is exponential
But we know…
• There’s a lack of awareness around what’s happening
• Serious organisational change hurdles
• Misplaced focused on technology to solve problems
• Both processes and people need to change
• Structured and meaningful content is on the rise
• Content is a strategic business asset
What is content architecture?The time and place for continuous and collaborative content design.
Strategy Architecture Management
It’s where ‘design thinking’ for content takes place.
Content Architecture
• The design phase for content management
• Create models for structured and meaningful content
• Define author experience for content creators
• Map value workflows from production to delivery
• Develop APIs to take content everywhere it needs to be
• Design a technical architecture to sustain content
Connecting Information to Content
Content
Context UsersContent
Wireframes, Blueprints
Metadata, Taxonomy, Thesauri
Labelling, Navigation, Search
Content Inventories & Mapping
Information architecture
Content Models, Author Experience, WorkflowStructured, Reusable & Personalised Content
Content Administration, Asset Organisation
Role-Based Content, Permissions
Content Scale, Storage, Analytics
Content architecture
Mind The Gap
Content Architecture
A Communication Tool
Applying content architectureThink big, start small.
Change is your friend: Move like Neo!
You don’t need content to progress, you need structure.
Responsive Design
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content is accessible to the entire content technology ecosystem, but most importantly internally!
Modularity
• From blobs to chunks.
• Break into parts
• Assemble into wholes
Search
• Establish taxonomy
• Indexing
• Retrieval
• Navigational
Content Repository
• Not all content lives in the CMS
• Architecture shows where content & data lives
In Summary
In Summary
Make space for content architecture within your projects. !Content architecture is where content design takes place. !There is no clear cut set of roles and responsibilities, across strategy, architecture and management. Who cares? !This is a maturing field, so let’s grow with it!
ResourcesFor more details:
1. http://www.slideshare.net/cleveg/defining-content-architecture
2. http://www.slideshare.net/cleveg/why-content-model
3. http://www.slideshare.net/cleveg/content-modelling-2013-lite
4. http://www.slideshare.net/cleveg/content-architecture-in-action
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