Computer Science 1032A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Web Server, Content Management System, Content Management

• School: Western University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: Computer Science 1032A/B
• Professor: Diane Goldstein

Document Summary

Related to intellectual property: form of creative endeavour that protected through trademark, patent, copyright, industrial design, or integrated circuit topography; varies by industry. Organizations may store data, documents, spreadsheet, presentations, web pages, text from blogs and discussion boards, graphics, video files, audio files. Content management challenge: processing and storing the right content, getting the right content to right person in right format at right time. Management of content: database management systems (dbms) effectively and efficiently storing and processing data. Presentation of content: content management system (cms) organizing documents, seek out documents and organize access. Keeping track of things: spreadsheets lists of single concept, databases keep lists involve multiple things. Conceptually simple, easy to understand, relationships aren"t predefined, database can evolve as required, relationships are implied in the data. Hierarchy of data elements: byte is character of data, grouped into columns, columns or groups grouped into rows (also called records), group of similar rows or records is called table or file.