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Trying to fix an organization’s content problems by installing a content management system (CMS) is like trying to save a marriage by booking a holiday. We know that a successful web project needs a content strategy—but when it comes to the CMS, we stop thinking strategically. Despite all the talk about user-centered design, we rarely consider the user experience of the editorial team—the people who implement the content strategy. We don’t design a CMS, we install it.
The Ohio State University Libraries’ Web site is large, including over 100,000 files at the beginning of the implementation, and the content model decentralized. In order to streamline the method by which content providers added content to the site, to facilitate a consistent design, and to ease maintenance of the site, it was determined that a content management system was needed. This presentation will describe the requirements identified, the thorough tests of 3 different content management systems that led to the selection of SilverStripe, and the implementation of SilverStripe. This presentation was delivered as a concurrent session at the 2009 LITA National Forum.
Wendy Huot reports on whether Queen's CMS will do for the library given its strategic plan 3: The Library will make a fundamental shift from ‘web pages’ to ‘web content’. Content will be easily created, re-used and syndicated. Authoring of content will be distributed widely. Web publishing mechanisms and presentation formats will be provided centrally."