Content Management Overview

Content Management Overview

Oracle provides a single platform for creating, managing, and delivering personalized, rich content to any device. Corporate information assets - documents, spreadsheets, multimedia, presentations, e-mail, and HTML files - are easily accessible to all users, and there is no need for specialty servers or unrelated file systems. Automatic search capabilities can discover valuable content wherever it resides and whatever language it is in.

Oracle’s content management features include the following:

The Oracle Internet File System (9iFS) provides both an out-of-the-box file system for storing and managing content in the database as well as a robust development platform for developing content management applications.

Oracle interMedia extracts metadata from rich media files (image, audio, video) and lets you manipulate these files in the Oracle database.

Oracle Text indexes textual content stored in the database and lets you perform sophisticated content-based queries on these indexes. The Oracle database indexes more than 150 document file types including MS Office, Adobe PDF, HTML, and XML documents, and Oracle Text supports over 40 languages.

Oracle Ultra Search builds on Oracle Text to provide a unified, searchable index of content stored in databases, file systems, and Web sites.

Oracle eLocation lets you add regional metadata to content and perform spatial searches.

Dynamic Services and the Syndication Server make it easy to aggregate content and deliver it to subscribers.

Workspaces help version content in the database.

XML services like the Oracle XML parser help you parse and render XML content, making it possible to tailor XML-based content to different formats and audiences.

Oracle Portal simplifies the process of delivering content to the intranet and Internet, and provides a framework for content providers to publish.

The Wireless Edition of Oracle9i can push content from the database into wireless devices.

Oracle provides access for creating and delivering content, while at the same time keeping content manageable. Not only can you create, manage, and deliver content

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Content Management Overview

through out-of-the-box interfaces like the Oracle Internet File System, but also through the Java, XML, and PL/SQL APIs.

Oracle Internet File System Overview

A large amount of critical business information usually resides in documents, spreadsheets, email, and Web pages. This data often exists only on someone's laptop or in a departmental file server, obscured from the rest of the organization. The Oracle Internet File System creates a secure, scalable file service that reaches all your information.

Oracle Internet File System injects more functionality and intelligence into your corporate file management processes. Users can search for words or phrases that appear in a document and use check-in/check-out features to keep disk space and document versioning from getting out of control.

Users can access files and data stored in the Oracle database from any standard Web browser, Windows client, or e-mail server without special training. Oracle Internet File System supports all of the most popular industry standards including HTTP, WebDAV, SMB, FTP, NFS, IMAP4, and SMTP.

Oracle Internet File System uses the multilevel security model of the Oracle database to establish secure methods for storing and managing content. It provides user authentication, access rights definition, and access control at the document, version, and folder level to prevent unauthorized access to information.

Developers can customize 9iFS for specific application purposes like quickly supporting new document types or validating and translating XML-based business rules between companies.

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Part II

Database Structures

Part II describes the basic structural architecture of the Oracle database, including physical and logical storage structures. Part II contains the following chapters: