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Professional Content Management Systems: Handling Digital Media Assets

ISBN: 978-0-470-85544-7

October 2005

336 pages

Description
Content and Content Management are core topics in the IT and broadcast industry. However these terms have not been clearly defined for those learning the field. The topic is complex and users from different industries have different backgrounds and a varied understanding of content issues. Multimedia Content Management helps to clarify the subject area, define problematic issues and establish a universal understanding of content and its management.
* Provides clarity in the subject area
* Defines potential problems and establishes a universal understanding
* Builds an architectural framework upon this account and different aspects of the industry and solutions are reviewed
* Comprehensively describes the different users working and accessing content, the applications and workflows

Essential reading for students, engineers and technical managers, in the area of data, storage management and multimedia, requiring an overview of this complex topic. The topics discussed will also prove highly insightful for executive managers and media professionals with a technical understanding and broadcast executives in the field.
About the Author

Dr. Andreas Mauthe, Multimedia Communications Lab – KOM, Germany

Dr. Peter Thomas, blue order GmbH, Germany

Both authors have been working in the area of multimedia and content management for
a number of years. While working together on the development of content management
systems and within projects, a lot of knowledge was accumulated about all the issues
related to the handling and management of content in a professional production and
broadcast environment.