1, what you will use the metadata for, both in the short-term and in the long-term. If you plan to have extensive personalization, for example, you'll want to begin collecting lots of metadata.
2, you'll need two kinds of metadata --
* attributes of the content (author, creation & expiration dates, etc.) that will be used by the CMS's business rules to deliver accurate content. These fields are pretty straightforward to figure out and maintain.
* information about the content's subject matter and audience, in order for search and dynamic content delivery to work. You'll want to develop these metadata fields as part of your larger taxonomy/IA efforts.
some thought-starters....
--Hilary
At 10:46 PM +0100 2/5/03, Mattias Konradsson wrote:
I'm working on a cms system and time has come to do the metadata stuff. I
don't have much experience in this aspect of the cms so I'd like to hear
your thoughts about what essential features one should include, anyone has any good experience to share on the subject?
-- Hilary Marsh president content company inc plan * create * manage http://www.contentcompany.biz -- http://cms-list.org/ more signal, less noise.
