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Courses are regularly scheduled in Paris and Leuven, as well as at various locations throughout North America.

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Principles of Content Engineering

Why?

Developing (web) content management and publishing applications requires an integrated approach utilizing different specialist skills and software tools. As a manager responsible for these applications you want to:

• Reduce project risk implementing (web) content management applications and processes
• Be able to respond to changing business and technical requirements
• Re-use existing content sources and applications
• Extend or improve any (web) content management and publishing systems already in use
• Reduce IT costs and associated maintenance by the automation of publishing processes

Course Outline

This intensive 2-day course is designed to introduce the principles of Content Engineering and explain them in detail from both a business and technical perspective. A special emphasis is placed upon:

• Prerequisites, project set up and development of Content Processing Applications and (Web) Content Management Systems
• Integrating and aggregating information from different sources
• Content Engineering fundamentals
• Information structuring and content processing
• The different tools and technologies and their associated benefits within the Content Engineering landscape

Objectives

After the two days the participants will be able to:

• Identify project requirements for developing (web) Content Management and Publishing Systems
• Identify the benefits of a content engineering based solution
• Understand the business value of a content engineering approach
• Have a deeper insight into different project approaches
• Anticipate the potential pitfalls and bottlenecks
• Understand the landscape and associated technologies of the content engineering domain

For Whom?

The course is aimed at IT professionals who require a deeper insight into the content engineering and content management field, including

• Project managers
• IT managers
• Content managers
• CIOs and CTOs
• Business consultants and enterprise IT architects

How?

The course is delivered in English and is made up of a mixture of:

• Classroom instruction
• Practical examples based upon project and content management/engineering requirements
• Interactive question and answer sessions

Prerequisites

• General business understanding of XML and related standards (XSLT, XSL-FO, ...)
• General background of IT architectures involving information management and information architectures

Detailed Course Program

Content Engineering Concepts and Philosophy

• Content and Content Engineering: definitions and concepts
• Concepts and methodology in content analysis
• Best practices in content processing
• Content management concepts
• Requirements analysis and management of metadata
• Requirements analysis and management of links and relationships
• Single sourcing principles
• Metadata requirements and management
• Conversion Factory setup

Information Structuring and Content Processing

• Structuring of information into XML
• Creation of XML information from non XML formats
• Processing of XML content
• Publishing of information stored in XML of other formats
• Migrating content into database architectures
• Generation and management of links and relationships
• Extraction and management of metadata

Content Integration

• Integration of content repositories
• Building XML content engineering middleware applications
• Real-time dynamic web serving
• Web services as an integration platform

Dates in Europe

• December 7, 8, Paris, France
• February 2, 3, 2005, Milan, Italy
• January 18, 19, 2005, London, UK
• February 22, 23, 2005, Antwerp, Belgium
• April 12, 13, 2005, Heidelberg, Germany
• June 7,8, 2005, Paris, France

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Dates in North America

• February 24, 25, 2005, Chicago, Illinois

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