There are 500+ Industry leaders in e-content
technology.“ Businesses have spent several trillion dollars
in developing a digital content infrastructure. More and more businesses
are realizing that, in order to compete in today’s economy,
they must employ sophisticated digital content techniques and technologies
in order to sell their products and educate their customers and
work forces.” www.contentworld.com
INFORMATION HIGHWAYS: “Electronic
content products that demonstrate
innovation in facilitating knowledge creation and e-business processes.” www.informationhighwys.net
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY MEETS CONTENT MANAGEMENT“ The
heart of intellectual endeavor is creativity. Creations: “product
of human imagination and/or endeavor in which rights may exist…Work:
abstract: made of concepts and ideas (example: a composition) Package:
physical: made of atoms (example: a book) Object: digital: made
of bits (example: a file) Performance: spatio-temporal: made of
actions (example: a broadcast)” www.doi.org