Temporal content management and website modeling: Putting them together

Abstract

The adoption of high-level models for temporal, data-intensive Web sites is proposed together with a methodology for the design and development through a content management system (CMS). The process starts with a traditional ER scheme; the various steps lead to a temporal ER scheme, to a navigation scheme (called N-ER) and finally to a logical scheme (called T-ADM). The logical model allows the definition of page-schemes with temporal aspects (which could be related to the page as a whole or to individual components of it). Each model considers the temporal features that are relevant at the respective level. A content management tool associated with the methodology has been developed: from a typical content management interface it automatically generates both the relational database (with the temporal features needed) supporting the site and the actual Web pages, which can be dynamic (JSP) or static (plain HTML or XML), or a combination thereof. The tool also includes other typical features of content management all integrated with temporal features. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.