Component-Level Management
In our client work, whether it involves a physical construction project or creating master metadata vocabularies, we're seeing the penetration of components into a wide variety of areas.
Components have been a staple in things like manufacturing and electronics for years. Now, we're seeing their presence as a design principle in areas like publishing and information management. This goes along with many of the overarching information management trends, including "software as a service" and the "Internet as a transaction space and application platform."
Component-level information management can be found in the form of content management. The latter offers a way to structure a body of content, while still being able to manipulate individual elements within that structure. Being able to manage information at the component-level offers significant advantages. It simplifies complex structures. It allows ready reuse or repurposing of individual elements. It facilitates the mechanics of collaboration, editing and updating, and gives a powerful degree of flexibility. It also signals a new era of information management, one where the information manager doesn't only provide access to containers, but to the structured content within those containers and does so in a proactive way, at the time of the information's creation.
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