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Web Content Management with Documentum

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Web Content Management with Documentum

Overview of this book

One of the world leaders in Enterprise Content Management, the EMC Documentum family of applications helps you manage all types of content across multiple departments within a single repository. With the Web Content Management suite of applications, you can efficiently manage content and underlying processes for your Web properties, and ensures that they are responsive to business needs. To fully realize the power of this system can seem daunting, but this book will help you achieve that. With easy to follow examples, this book will take you the simplest and most straightforward route to success. Along the way, you will learn insights that only a seasoned professional would know. Packed with practical examples, you will get hands-on with the powerful features of Documentum to grow your skills and confidence. You will see tips and tricks to handle complexities of the system, and avoid the common errors that waste your time. From installing and getting started with Documentum, you will see how to design and develop Documentum applications, before rounding off with deployment.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Web Content Management with Documentum
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Preface
Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

2.2 Docbase


Docbase should be thought of as a huge centralized repository that stores content and metadata in the form of 'objects' and their properties.

Metadata for the content is nothing but the different attributes that describe the content; for example its owner, creation date, version number, etc.

Some attributes can be 'single-valued' having just one value, for example the name of the content, while others can be 'multi-valued' having multiple values, for example the keywords describing the content.

Documentum relies on the underlying RDBMS to store the metadata for various objects in various tables. On the other hand, the content files for the numerous objects are stored in any of these storage types:

  • The host server's OS file system

  • In an RDBMS as BLOBs (Binary Large Objects)

  • A content storage device (for example: EMC Centera)

  • An external system outside Documentum's boundaries

Additionally, Content Server has an embedded full-text search engine, Verity, and so the Docbase repository contains...