However, they don't provide a framework in which to standardise your content they do not attempt to add value to elements of the document. Referring back to our aim of a sustainable and flexible content format that users could take ownership of and the need for new knowledge based services to our clients, we realised we would need a system in which we could do more with the content. Starting in June 1999, The Knowledge Systems group at Standards Australia Publishing began the rapid development of a content management system. Content management software that automatically converts documents into HTML and links them together in a browsable website. At Standards Australia we use Word 97, but Word 2000 could be used or any other modern word processor.
Authors choose from a range of templates depending on which type of document they want to create.
The document is marked up using the styles feature of Word and saved in RTF format. It is checked into an XML repository, previewed on a management site and then published to the live web site. Using point and click tools, an author can publish a document in just a few minutes without any need to interact with a web master. All the information to publish to the correct section of the site is contained in the metadata captured during the document creation process. Our templates generate the skeleton of a document, with headers footers, margins, font and size of text already in place.