All four metrics are highly subjective and multidimensional. What is quality? effectiveness? and accuracy? What does it mean to be up-to-date Such things are a measure of the people and their processes, not the CMS.
Re: measuring content freshness. A CMS could certainly enforce publish/expiration rules to maintain content freshness (many already do), but it's the people who craft the rules and set the values for pub date and expiration date. In my opinion, none of the four belong in an analysis of a CMS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pascal Westers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 6:20 AM Subject: [cms-list] Are there ways to measure the quality, effectiveness, accuracy and timeliness of content? > > Dear professional > > I'm currently writing a thesis on the cost efficiency of CMS. I wonder if any of you heard or read about measures/tests to determine whether content is up to date, of good quality, effective and/or accurate. I'm specifically looking for scientific articles in which an attempt has been made to measure any of the above. > > Hope to hear from you! Best regards, Pascal Westers > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > -- > http://cms-list.org/ > trim your replies for good karma. -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
