Content tagged with "content-management"
Given the title, I’m a little embarrassed to say I thought this book was about content management. It’s not – it’s about the use of metadata in data warehousing. I stuck with it though because it discussed an aspect of data warehousing with which I wasn’t familiar. It’s dated, but well-written and I…
Hard to review, because it’s 15-years-old, but a nice look back at what CMS was in 2002. It drifts a lot – talks about governance, content strategy, and design – but perhaps that’s how “content management” was perceived back then?
Good book for what it is. If you know Drupal, you’ll be bored. But if you have no idea what a CMS is, this is a good overview. There is zero code. This is all “Drupal by configuration,” which is a school of thought which may or may not appeal to you. Gets bogged down in individual module…
A good overview of how a large scale enterprise search implementation might go. This is not a technical book, and only gets far into the technical weeds as is absolutely necessary to talk about how search works in general. Considerable time is spent on the larger industry trends and how they might…
I’m rating this five stars because it accomplished everything it set out to do, but books like this really defy rating. This is a procedural book. You’re meant to have this open while you do stuff. There’s not a lot of words – it’s largely screencaps and code listings. Books like this also become…
Wonderful little book that covers the philosophical basis of metadata. This isn’t a technical instruction manual. Rather, it talks about why metadata exists, what it is, and why it matters, which some more practical information tossed in.
A needed discussion about metadata, specifically around web content. We’ve been missing a discussion specifically around microformats/data, etc. With a scope like this, the book can drift a bit, but there are so many references to standards and other targets of study, that it’s given me a list a…
Not rating this one, because I wasn’t really the right audience for it. I wanted an introduction to recommender system theory, and what I got was … a lot of math. This is a programming manual, with code samples in Python. There is some theory here, certainly, but there’s no getting away from the…
If you’re a developer and you just never “got” Drupal, this is your book. If this book succeeds at one thing, it’s to change your mindset about Drupal – to understand the different paradigms you need to adopt to work with it. Highly recommended in that sense.
I thought I knew search. I knew nothing about search.
The book alternates between a great overview of the subject, and getting down-and-dirty with the code. I don’t know a good solution to this, but I was less concerned with the code and more concerned with the overhead view. It’s a good discussion of how to manage text: how to tokenize it, search it,…
I read this for historic context. At 13 years old, it’s not relevant, but it does reveal that managing files was really was CMS did back then. Most of the book is about how to manage files without overwriting people . This was written by the founder of Interwoven, and it makes me think Interwoven…
An important book. Much more tactical than books about web governance in general. Presents actual strategies for dealing with the hailstorm of change requests and new content.
