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CONTENT MODELLING: THE ART OF DESIGNING STRUCTURED CONTENT Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger & Cleve Gibbon @cleveg Sample slides from the workshop
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INTRODUCTIONS
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Cleve Gibbon CTO
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Rachel Lovinger Experience Director
Razorfish
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• ‘70s – the child of database programmer and an editor
• ‘80s – student, photographer, writer, and filmmaker
• ‘90s – making interactive training programs
• Early ‘00s – web developer, working on presentation templates that displayed content from a CMS
Today, I do content strategy as part of a User Experience department, collaborating with
people from many disciplines.
HOW I GOT HERE (CONTENT STRATEGIST)
Rachel, Age 9
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• ‘70s – hyperactive child to nightshift nurses • ‘80s – designer, come gamer, and console
hacker • ‘90s – student, lecturer, modeler and UI
developer • Early ‘00s – platform developer / architect
building trading platforms
Today, I work equally across with content and technology to create engaging platforms to
better serve customers
HOW I GOT HERE (CONTENT TECHNOLOGIST)
Cleve, Age 6
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• The content strategist uses the content model to: • Validate experience concepts & designs • Explore the needs of the content creators • Drive the development of taxonomies • Communicate the content design details to those implementing the CMS • Instruct content producers
• The content technologist, uses the content model to:
• Get the business to pop the content bonnet from the get go. • Bring technologists upstream into content conversations. • Engage humans in the key elements of content architecture. • Provide a visual reference point for structured content. • Paint the incomplete content picture and highlight the obvious gaps. • Drive discussions around responsive design, mobile, targeting, translation, …
CONTENT MODELLING
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• Part One: Background • Let’s talk about structured content • Content Modelling Overview*
• Benefits of content modelling
• Part Two: Creating Content Models • Which content should be modelled? • Content types • Content properties
• Part Three: Refining Content Models • Attributes vs. relationships • Chunking & assembling • Adaptability
• Part Four: Putting it to
Work • Responsive design • Content APIs • Meaningful structure • CMS architectures • Content architecture*
WORKSHOP AGENDA
* Section included
PART ONE: BACKGROUND
CONTENT MODELLING OVERVIEW
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Chart Song
Album Page
Artist Profile
HOW DO WE GET TO STRUCTURED CONTENT?
Manage content separate from display (CMS) Content Modelling
Rich Metadata
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Web Standards
- Mark Boulton http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/structure-first-content-always
You can create good experiences without knowing the content.
What you can’t do is create good
experiences without knowing your content structure.
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CONTENT MODELLING IS…
…structured content design. It’s both an art and a science. • The art is “designing” something that is simple, clear and relevant.
• The science is “engineering” elegant structures with integrity and
consistency to house sustainable content.
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HOW IS IT DONE?
• It’s data modelling for content (and we’ve been doing it for a long, long time within the software industry…).
• Content modelling mines, defines and refines structured content.
• The tangible output from content modelling are content model(s).
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WHAT IS A CONTENT MODEL?
A content model is a formal representation of structured content as a collection of content types and their inter-relationships. • Defines and documents all the different types of content you will
have for a given project.
• Provides detailed descriptions and specifications of each content type, their attributes and relationships with each one another.
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HIGH LEVEL CONTENT MODEL: DIAGRAM
Landscape of content types
Chart Song
Album Page
Artist Profile
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CONTENT MODEL: DIAGRAM
Identify and express key content relationships
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More info about the underlying data storage & specs
DETAILED CONTENT MODEL: SPREADSHEET
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DETAILED CONTENT MODEL: DOCUMENT
Create documents using Word, Wikis, PowerPoint
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• A content model helps clarify requirements and encourages
collaboration between designers, developers setting up the CMS, and content creators.
• Content modelling helps bring the content strategy to life while also making sure: • The designs are complete and accurate • The business user needs are taken into account • The content management solution (incl. CMS) supports the content needs • The content strategy is sustainable
CONTENT MODELLING FOSTERS ALIGNMENT
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MODEL THINKING
Business Creative/UX Tech
Content (Production, Management, Delivery) Strategy
Comps
Wires
Specs
Prototypes
Architecture
APIs
Goals
Audience
Plan
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• Validate designs and planned content
• Identify constraints and capabilities
• Influence CMS selection
• Design UI customizations
• Ground designs in an information model
• Discuss content sources
• Discuss content workflow
• Pose requirements questions
• Get aligned on labels
• Discuss resources needed
• Create training and guidelines
MODELS SUPPORT DISCUSSION & DECISIONS
Business Creative/UX Tech
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• Content models are formal representations of structured content.
• Content models should be simple, clear and relevant.
• Content modelling is both art and science.
• Value modelling over the model.
• Use the process and the model to drive discussion and develop
alignment on content across disciplines.
SUMMARY
PART TWO: CREATING CONTENT MODELS
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• Which Content? – Determine which content in a design needs to be modelled
• Content Types – Identify the various configurations of content that are distinct enough to be unique types in the system
• Content Properties – Define each content type in detail • Attributes – Enumerate the content and metadata elements that make up
each type • Relationships – Express how content types relate to each other
COMPONENTS OF A CONTENT MODEL
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Use the designs and determine which content* will be:
WHICH CONTENT SHOULD BE MODELLED?
CMS
Display
Dynamic
Other
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• Which types of content are different enough that they might warrant a unique structure?
• Ex: Article, quiz, slideshow, recipe & event are fairly distinct.
CONTENT TYPES
© A List Apart, Jeff Baker and Alex Graham, Washington Post, Food Network, and Barnes & Noble
Article Quiz
Slide show
Recipe
Event
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• Figure out the separate elements, or attributes, of each one. Think about how each segment of information will be used.
• Related content items can be linked to or embedded.
• Ex: Book & author each have their own page.
CONTENT PROPERTIES
Event
Event Name
Location
Date & Time
Event © Barnes & Noble
Book Page (link)
Author Page (link)
Event Type
PART THREE: REFINING CONTENT MODELS
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• Attributes vs. relationships – Determine which parts of a
content type are core attributes of the type, and which are relationships to other types
• Chunking & assembling – Consider the decisions points around how granularly the content will be chunked, and how those chunks will be assembled
• Adaptability – Further refine the model by creating additional attributes that make it easier for the content to adapt to a wide range of contexts, platforms, devices, and channels
REFINING CONTENT MODELS
PART FOUR: PUTTING IT TO WORK
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• Responsive Design • Content APIs • Meaningful Structure • CMS Architectures • Content Architecture
PUTTING IT TO WORK
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• More content through increased interactions. • Increased complexity through more experiments. • Fewer resources to manage more content. • We’re approaching the unmanaged content tipping point. • Technology not equipped to plug people/process gaps. • Mindset shift to getting content everywhere. • Immature multi-channel publishing for marketing. • No time to define and shine!
- D. Keith Robinson, Think Vitamin http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/redefining-content-management/
There are four important pieces to the content management puzzle:
content, people, process and technology.
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Sustainable content requires us to understand:
• how best to apply technology (CM Ecosystem)
• to support the processes (Workflow)
• that people use to produce (Author Experience)
• and consume (Customer/Service Experience)
• structured content (Content Modelling).
⇒ Content Architecture is the Design Phase
CONTENT ARCHITECTURE
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CONTENT ARCHITECTURE
Content Strategy
Content Management
Why
Content Architecture
What How
Actionable
Plan
Operational
model
technical
solution
http://www.clevegibbon.com/content-architecture/
sustainable content
WRAPPING UP
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• Structuring content is an interdisciplinary task • Content modelling is the art & science of designing structured
content • Content modelling enables responsive design, enhanced authoring
interfaces, and smart components • Content models define and express content types, content
attributes & content relationships • Creating and refining content models is an iterative process that
informs and is informed by design, business needs, and technology • When we put content models to work we arrive at responsible
responsive design, content APIs, meaningful structures, and effective use of CMS architectures
• Sustainable content requires a well-design content architecture
WHAT WE’VE LEARNED
Karen McGrane Content Strategy for Mobile
Rahel Bailie & Noz Urbina Content Strategy for Decision Makers
Sara Wachter-Boettcher Content Everywhere
Bob Boiko Content Management Bible
Ann Rockley & Charles Cooper Managing Enterprise Content
Heather Hedden The Accidental Taxonomist
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PEOPLE TO FOLLOW
At the intersection of Content Strategy, Responsive Design, Structured Content, and the Future-Friendly Web.
• Karen McGrane (@karenmcgrane : slideshare : blog) • Rahel Anne Bailie (@rahelab : slideshare : blog) • Sara Wachter-Boettcher (@sara_ann_marie : slideshare : blog) • Noz Urbina (@nozurbina : slideshare : blog) • Cennydd Bowles (@Cennydd : blog) • Luke Wroblewski (@lukew : slideshare : blog) • Ethan Marcotte (@beep : blog) • Brad Frost (@brad_frost : slideshare : blog) • Mike Atherton (@mikeatherton : slideshare : blog ) And of course… • Rachel (@rlovinger : slideshare : blog) • Cleve (@cleveg : slideshare : blog) • Kerry-Anne Gilowey (@kerry_anne : slideshare)
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Cleve Gibbon @cleveg
cleve.gibbon@cognifide.com
THANK YOU
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Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger
rachel.lovinger@razorfish.com
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