Open AccessSoftware Review: A Review of the Plone Content Management System
Author(s) -
Stephen Bollinger
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
education libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2376-8711
pISSN - 0148-1061
DOI - 10.26443/el.v33i2.295
Subject(s) - content management system , world wide web , content management , computer science , software , workload , document management system , management system , open source , dynamic web page , web content , multimedia , the internet , database , web page , engineering , operating system , operations management
Web content management systems (CMSs) are tools to help efficiently manage modern websites. Broadly defined, CMSs are database-driven software packages that allow people who are not HTML experts to create and edit website content, manage revisions and approvals for content, and help reduce the workload of maintaining a website. Within the past five years open source content management systems, created and maintained by a community of software developers and available without charge, have matured to become viable options for libraries that are not information technology juggernauts. Plone1, now in its fourth major release, is one such content management system that is now in wide use by libraries. [...]