Packaging Information – Keeping Content Disentangled from Presentation

Posted on June 17, 2006 by Elmer Masters

Audience: Authors and Web Coordinators
Technical Level: Medium to ? (basic concepts will be of interest to all)

Web sites and collections of course materials present challenges in editing, updating and presenting information in the most highly usable forms. Information is most useful when it is categorized and indexed, but kept separate from the delivery mechanics.

This presentation will introduce the basic principles of content management and information presentation with immediately-usable examples of content placed on the web. Specific examples include the use of database-driven web pages, style sheets, XML systems (podcasts, newsfeeds, etc.) and content management systems.

MP3: DanielsLR5Sat1200.mp3

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Earl A. Daniels
College of Law Web Coordinator
Georgia State University College of Law

This presentation will introduce the basic principles of content management and information presentation with immediately-usable examples of content placed on the web. Specific examples include the use of database-driven web pages, style sheets, XML systems (podcasts, newsfeeds, etc.) and content management systems.

Earl A. Daniels
College of Law Web Coordinator
Georgia State University College of Law

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About Elmer Masters

Elmer R. Masters is the Director of Technology at the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (www.cali.org) where he works on interesting projects involving technology and legal education like eLangdell, Classcaster, Lawbooks, QuizWright, and the CALI website. He has over 30 years of experience building tech tools for legal education and systems for accessing law and legal materials on the Internet. He is the admin of the Teknoids mailing list (www.teknoids.net) and has been blogging about legal education, law, and technology for over 20 years (www.symphora.com). He has a JD from Syracuse University College of Law and was employed by Syracuse, Cornell Law School, and Emory University School of Law before joining CALI in 2003. Elmer has presented at the CALI Conference for Law School Computing (where he organizes the program), the AALL and AALS Annual Meetings, Law Via The Internet, and other conferences, symposia, and workshops on topics ranging from IT management in law schools to building open access court reporting systems to information architecture design and implementation in law.
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