IT1011 DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI:: CHENNAI 600 025 CURRICULUM 2004 B.TECH. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI:: CHENNAI 600 025
CURRICULUM 2004
B.TECH. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

IT1011 DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT 3 0 0 100

AIM
To understand the key issues in the emerging discipline of Digital Asset Management

OBJECTIVES
• To understand the ways and means of creating digital content
• To understand the methods of storing large digital content
• To know the basics of Content Management
• To know the key design issues of Content Management Systems
• To know the key technologies to build Content Management Systems.

UNIT I CREATING DIGITAL CONTENT 8
Digital Primer, Any Content – Anywhere, Anytime, Digital Content Consumer, Tools and the Trade, Digital Recording, CGI and Digital Content Creation, Digital Audio, Rich Media, Streaming Media, Digital Interactive Television, Digital Cinema.

UNIT II COMPRESSING AND INDEXING 9
Document Databases, Compression, Indexes, Text Compression, Indexing Techniques, Image Compression, Mixed Text and Images

UNIT III CONTENT MANAGEMENT 10
Systems for Managing Content, The Enterprise Content Management System (CMS), Major parts of a CMS, Need for a CMS, Roots of Content Management, Branches of Content Management

UNIT IV DESIGN OF CMS 10
The Wheel of CMS, Working with Metadata, Cataloging Audiences, Designing Publications, Designing content Components, Accounting for Authors, Accounting for Acquisition sources,

UNIT V BUILDING CMS 8
Content Markup Languages, XML and Content Management, Processing Content

TOTAL : 45
TEXTBOOKS
1. John Rice and Brian Mckerman (Editors), Peter Bergman, “Creating Digital Content”, McGraw-Hill, USA, 2001[UNIT 1]
2. Ian H Witten, Alistair Moffat, Timothy C Bell, “Managing Gigabytes”, Academic Press, USA, 1999 [UNIT 2]
3. Bob Boiko, “Content Management Bible”, John Wiley & Sons, USA, 2001 [UNITS 3,4,5]

REFERENCES
1. Abdreas Ulrich Mauthe and Peter Thomas, “Professional Content Management Systems – Handling Digital Media Assets”, John Wiley & Sons, USA, 2004
2. Dave Addey, James Ellis, Phil Suh, David Thiemecke, “Content Management Systems (Tool of the Trade)”, Apress, USA, 2003.