Knowledge OverviewKnowledge is a browser based, multi-channel digital content system, designed to manage the origination and production of content for both traditional newsprint and new publishing media simultaneously. This means that edition planners will be able to access and manage whole publications and editions from any internet-accessible location; content editors can assess and direct text, pictures, video and audio to their required destinations; page editors can design pages and assign stories; sub editors can hone and fit text and pictures; news-gatherers can write text or upload pictures, audio and video – all in one system, all from wherever they are on the internet. And all of those jobs can be done for a publisher by anyone to whom they offer access to the system – staffers, freelancers or occasional contributors – and the system, with the database at its core, able to track individual or group activity as a method of providing billing or payment information through Knowledge’s in-built Software-As-A-Service capability. FeaturesKnowledge is not based on relational databases and flat files, which rely on multiple bolted-on solutions to achieve full functionality. Knowledge utilises an object orientated database creating a high-performance solution with the ability to automatically associate related content and create intelligent workflows for easier, faster, and richer content publication. A key design element of Knowledge has been to make the system as “intelligent” as possible moving away from the approach taken by traditional systems, which are heavily reliant on the user filling in metadata, to a system that is able to make these decisions for the user. The use of a text-mining and summarisation engine within the core code of Knowledge allows the system to automatically associate content together, for example archived stories with live stories and the use of a set of keyword concepts specific to an edition (ontology) to identify the subject and geospatial information for categorising the locale to which a story relates. Knowledge is also designed to allow for as much re-use of information as possible, both publishing the same content across multiple output channels such as print, web, mobile etc. To achieve this, all of the system’s business logic is contained within the core database and then accessed via lightweight client software. Knowledge is entirely browser-based, using state of the art user interfaces, but it can also be accessed through traditional desktop applications if required. Knowledge can also be used with QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign and any Adobe Flash compatible browser. Being browser based, Knowledge is platform independent. It is also geographically independent. But it is also uncompromising in delivering a user experience on a par with that of users accessing the system through desktop applications. This means that edition planners will be able to and manage whole publications and editions from any internet-accessible location; news editors can assess and direct text, pictures, video and audio to their required destinations; page editors can design pages and assign stories; down-table sub editors can hone and fit text and pictures; news-gatherers can write text or upload pictures, audio and video – all in one system, all from wherever they are on the internet. And all of those jobs can be done for a publisher by anyone to whom they offer access to the system – staffers, freelancers or occasional contributors – and the system, with the database at its core, able to track individual or group activity as a method of providing billing or payment information through Knowledge’s in-built Software-As-A-Service capability. |
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