Content Editing

Definition

Content Editing

the content management task during which potential, digital, and possibly internationalized content is edited for quality

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Content Editing is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Task
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical responsibilities of Content Editing are to:

• Ensure that the textual content:
  • Is grammatically correct.
  • Is correctly spelled.
  • Is clear, unambiguous, understandable, and easy to read.
  • Supports the digital brand (e.g., by having the correct voice and tone).
  • Conforms to its content and format standard.

Preconditions

Content editing typically can begin when the following preconditions hold:

• The construction phase has started.
• The initial conventions for content creation (e.g., guidelines, standards) have been produced during the process engineering activity.
• Unedited content exists in the draft content database.
• The content management team has been adequately staffed with content editors who have been adequately trained in content editing.

Completion Criteria

Content editing is typically complete when the following postconditions hold:

• All content has been edited.
• The state of the content is updated in the content's associated metadata.
• The retirement phase has started.

Steps

Content creation typically involves the following teams performing the following steps in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Content Management Team:
  • Check the content out of the content management repository.
  • Edit the content.
  • Update the content's metadata.

Techniques

Content editing can typically be performed using the following techniques:

• TBD

Work Products

Content editing typically results in the production of the following work products:

• Data Components:
  • Edited Potential Content:
    • Textual content.
    • Numerical content.
    • Audio content.
    • Graphical content.
    • Video content.
  • Updated Content Metadata

Guidelines

• Content editing should be performed iteratively, incrementally, and in parallel with other content management tasks.
• Typically, only newly created content needs to be edited. Often legacy content (e.g., product catalog information) or external content (e.g., news or stock feeds) do not require manual editing.