Web Content Management System Research Articles

An empirical introspection of the library website from user perspectives: resource gateways versus Web Content Management Systems (WCMS) in higher educational institutions

Library websites being the virtual or digital facet of any library it is paramount to constantly evaluate and enhance the interface with necessary resources and services. In this regard, this study was carried out to analyze a range of opinions and feedbacks from stakeholders of a university library, which has published the links to subscribed databases, training guides, reference services, and research support services on its website. Due to the restrictions on mobility by economic crisis and Corona pandemic, library users heavily relied on digital interfaces to share and retrieve information. In this regard, a survey was carried out to explore the demand and desire of the library users as whether the library website satisfies them or does it need redesigning. Convenient sampling technique was employed where hundred and fifteen (115) users had responded to semi-structured questionnaires. Data extracted were analyzed using the Pearson Chi-square test, one-way ANOVA, and one sample Wilcoxon sign rank test. Majority (33.3%) of the students of the Faculty of Science were using the library website more frequently than the students of other faculties. Responses showed that the Training Guides (Mean=4.00; SD = ±0.926) and past-paper portals (Mean=3.96; SD = ±0.989) accessed via the library website were useful. The chi-square test revealed a significant relationship of faculties with article requests (p=0.037) and adequacy of website information for academic work (p=0.036). Similarly, the level of students has a significant relationship with Selective Dissemination of Information (p=0.048); usefulness of the training guides (p=0.022); adequate research support (p=0.026); and effective organization of information (p=0.003). Overall responses revealed that the Library website is highly user-friendly (Mean=3.90; SD = ±0.909). One-way ANOVA revealed a significant relationship between the resourcefulness of the website and the respondents’ overall satisfaction with the information received from the library website (p=0.021). These results evinced that the library website must comply with users’ expectations and needs. Students’ opinions and feedback emphasized on the need for updating the website through a benchmark of other library interfaces. FAQ section and Chat bot were a few suggestions made by the users.

Web-Service Security and The Digital Skills of Users: An Exploratory Study of Countries in Europe

This study explores the impact of internet users’ and web owners’ knowledge, measured by the level of digital skills, on the number of insecure websites based on a survey of the internet. The influence of the affordability of internet access to the web space on the vulnerability of a particular European country is also considered. The study introduces a quantifiable index for assessing the insecurity of websites that is incorporated into a newly developed tool that scans websites and identifies the vulnerability in the Web Content Management System (WCMS). The collected vulnerability data and the digital skills are analyzed with statistical methods for finding the interdependences and relationships. Higher levels of digital skills and lower fixed-internet-access costs contribute to a smaller number of insecure websites. The vulnerability of the websites for different economic sectors is explored as well. The paper discusses the differences in the digital development pathways and governmental policies applied in European countries that have been affected by user knowledge and digital skills. The study brings original results and findings, as there are no similar studies addressing the impact of the knowledge of a country’s population on the level of insecurity found in the WCMS, including plug-ins.

A Review on Web Content Management system (WCMS) Features and Software

Web Content Management System, a type of Content Management System, allows an organization to handle digital information on a website by creating and handling content without prior knowledge of programming or markup languages. The management of online material is beneficial for organizational business applications, producing statistics for decision-making and accomplishing results. The components, functions, software, applications, and benefits and drawbacks of online content management systems have been covered in this study.

Web Content Management Systems as a Support Service in Academic Library Websites: An Investigation of the World-class Universities in 2012–2022

PurposeThis study aims to describe and analyze the global status and trends in the application of Web Content Management Systems (WCMS) in academic library websites over the last decade, as reflected on the Internet Archive and current library websites. Design/methodology/approachThe study selected the top 1000 academic library websites listed in the 2023 QS World University Rankings, and collected and examined their WCMS adopted in 2012 and 2022 using Python software and the BuiltWith tool. Multiple visits were made to capture the distribution of WCMS, popular software, and software categories. FindingsThe survey results indicated a significant change in the application of WCMS to academic library websites from 2012 to 2022. The number of libraries using WCMS increased by 288, and over half (61.9 %) of libraries adopted WCMS in 2022. Over 70 types of WCMS existed within academic libraries, while a small number of WCMS own the vast majority of the market share, with Drupal consistently being the most popular software. Significant geographical differences existed in the WCMS used by academic libraries in different countries/regions. The innovation theory and functional modules of open-source WCMS will be the main factors influencing their future website transformation and upgrading of academic libraries.

Constructing Structured Content on WordPress: Emerging Paradigms in Web Content Management

Web content management systems (WCMSs) are widely used technologies that, like previous writing tools, shape how people think about and create documents. Despite their influence and ubiquity, however, WCMSs have received exceedingly little attention from scholars interested in social aspects of technology. I begin to address this gap by analyzing the development of WordPress's content creation experience through the lens of structured content. Based on this analysis, I contribute to ongoing discussions of content management by first suggesting that concepts such as structured content need to be understood as the contingent products of technical lineages and technical and social relationships and by second drawing attention to emerging paradigms of content creation, such as the merging of content creation and arrangement and the conflation of visual and abstract representations of content objects.

Review of Web Content Management Systems and their Increasing Demand in Market

Abstract: Content Management System (CMS) enables a user to create, edit, view and deploy the websites without having the technical knowledge to create a website from scratch. CMS-based Web applications have increased their presence in the market because of the advantages they offer with regard to information and content management. There are many CMS available in the web development tools market. In this research paper we’ll discuss about CMS available in market like wordpress, wix, squarespace and shopify for analysis and how they have grown over the years ,and how they are performing in today’s world. There are various features provided by CMS On the basis of these available features the CMS are comparatively analysed. The user can choose best CMS according to their need and technological platform.

Функциональный анализ популярных систем управления контентом

The article discusses various functions of the web content management system that must be taken into account when developing an educational website. A number of improvements are presented for the development of CMS-based web applications based on an approach based on the lifecycle model of content management systems. These materials are recommendations that allow you to improve the overall quality of the CMS being developed.

Analysis & Comparative study of LAMP CMS

Content is king of any business and organization. For small and medium enterprise face many difficulties to manage digital content and website. A content management system, often abbreviated as CMS, is software that helps users create, manage, and modify digital content on a website without the need for specialized technical knowledge. In this work we explain how to manage LAMP CMS & how to select best and most popular open source LAMP based CMS namely Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal, Magento, PrestaShop, SquareSpace, Wix, Typo3. Through a qualitative comparative analysis, visual aspect, ease of use, advantage and drawback. Keywords: LAMP, web content management system, open source CMS,

Designing an optimized confidential-data management system using preeminent access-control and block-chain

PurposeThe blockchain system is required for coordinating and managing the information across the organizations. The internal assurance of the information system is under threat and requires a defined and arbitrary system for protective information sharing. The primary analysis of defining and providing the access to the data or information is proposed in this article. The major challenge faced by organizations is providing and maintaining security to the cumulated data infrastructure, protecting the confidential data flow within the infrastructure and to ascertain ethical operations within the organization.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, a top-down approach is utilized to solve the issues faced during confidential data storage, track and alert internal malignant access. The web content management system (WCMS) market is growing and the challenging desideratum of solving security issues are incrementing. This research proposes a top-down security implementation methodology which alters the access control of the organization running the WCMS, it is a highly secure access-control with activity tracker that records who did what activity and who is responsible for malignant access tracker.FindingsThe upgraded access control system is implemented utilizing the most influential blockchain technology where the hash engendered by the Inter Planetary File System (IPFS) cloud is stored on the block to implement a confidential data tracker; a supplemental level of security is integrated to the admin by verifying its account ID by storing it on to the astute contracts and applying two-step authentication. A caliber of security is integrated during storage by integrating RHS encryption.Research limitations/implicationsThis system is proposed for the confidential student data storage (for e.g. educational documents, marks cards etc.) and tracking maleficent access.Originality/valueThe upgraded access control system is implemented using the most influential blockchain technology where the hash generated by the IPFS cloud is stored on the block to implement a confidential data tracker, an additional level of security is added to the admin by verifying its account ID by storing it on to the smart contracts and applying two-step authentication.

Web Content Management Systems used by Search Engine Optimization Experts for Top Rankings in Search Engine Result Pages

There are several Web Content Management Systems (WCMS) available that are used by web developers in order to develop and manage a website. In addition, over the last years, companies have invested in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques by applying the factors used by search engines, such as Google, in order to rank amongst the first results in Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). On-page factors such as the implementation of keywords in the title tags and the website loading time are amongst the criteria that are taken into consideration and are directly affected by the website’s technology and WCMS. Following a relevant literature review, the authors conducted research amongst 6682 websites in order to identify whether and which WCMS is used by SEO experts’ websites that appear in the top search results. Findings indicated that custom made websites that do not rely on widely used WCMSs appear more frequently at the top of search results, while the Drupal CMS appears quite high, despite it being used by a small number of websites across the web.

Developing Web Content Management Systems – from the Past to the Future

The article presents an overview of the main stages of development and formation of content management systems as a component of software, in conjunction with the material base. The need of a society in creation and development of systems is revealed. The main elements of the mentioned systems, their functionality, and user groups are described. The features of modern content management systems are presented. The change in approaches to the development of such systems from monolithic to distributed systems is outlined. Further formation of Web-content management systems is seen in the development of systems with open source code, using Web 3.0, refining tools analysis of the quality of content, support for business B2B and B2C, interface development, active use of headless CMS, support of a new level of SEO, implementation of artificial intelligence algorithms. Keywords: content management systems

Toward Efficient Web Publishing with Provenance of Information Using Trusty URIs: Applied the Proposed Model with The Quran

This research presents a methodology for trusting the provenance of data on the web. The implication is that data does not change after publication and the source of the data is stable. There are different data that should not change over time, such as published information in books and similar documents as well as news or events reported on the web. If the data change after publication on the web, the web pages that reference the unstable data will lose points of interest or link to different resources. With the current move to linked data and the semantic web, this is becoming a greater obstacle to be solved. This research presents a methodology for establishing trusted information using an encoded reference of the data embedded in its URI, which creates a stable reference of the data and a method for ensuring its provenance stability. After applying the methodology, the results showed that the methodology is highly applicable and has no overhead cost over the loading time. The novel solution can be applied directly to any data portals or web content management systems.

Security Challenges Behind the Development and Increased Use of Open Source Web Content Management Systems

Nowadays the IT market is enriched with free Open Source Web Content Systems offers that are available to all users. No system is perfect, and some of them have better solutions in one segment but are more vulnerable in others and vice versa, all in order to be more user-friendly. The most common form of Content Management System (CMS) implemented on the Internet today is the Web Content Management System(WCMS). This solution includes numerous advantages for site administrators as well as communication with the site designer for all users in order to improve the content, through written remarks, opinions and evaluations of the site content, resulting in a more dynamic and interactive site. This modern approach offers users with a poor IT background the opportunity to be independent and creative in creating their own website. In this paper we present data collected from several websites monitored for various cyber-attacks. Moreover, we will describe and analyze security challenges that follow cyber-attacks. During the monitoring process we followed 15 web addresses over a period of nine months and collected 520 reports of various cyber-attacks. The following analysis presents the different kinds of attacks, their frequency and some of the ways to reduce cyber-attacks to the lowest possible level.

Attacks on Newly Registered Content Management Websites – A Comparison

Web Content Management Systems (CMSs) are tools for creating and maintaining commercial-quality websites. Their popularity has increased, but so has their complexity and the number of third-party modules. These, however, increase the risk of vulnerabilities. This paper presents a case study of hacker/intrusion activities on CMS websites. We study how much of the incoming traffic is potentially malicious and where it originates from. Additionally, we study if CMS’s based on different CMS software attract different kinds of traffic. To implement our study, we have registered and launched three virtual websites (running on the same computer). Each site runs its own popular CMS software, but their content is identical (a weblog with a simple template). The sites run for six months on a platform of a commercial web hosting provider. Our methodology is empirical, and our analysis is based on logging every HTTP request that was sent to the sites. This was done using the logging capabilities of the webserver software, Apache. We compare the sites with each other, with an established website, and an empty website. Our analysis shows that more than 90% of all traffic to the websites (both old and new) is potentially malicious. Further, we find that a large majority of the intrusion attempts are very unsophisticated: they do not try to exploit any specific vulnerabilities of the underlying CMS. Therefore, keeping the CMS up-to-date and following CMS hardening practices is enough to repel these attacks.

Design and Develop CMS for Sindhi E-News Papers

Objective: To design and Develop CMS for Sindhi e-newspaper by using the searching techniques. Methods/analysis: Existing e-newspapers are not implementing any CMS with searching techniques. The research methodology is supposed to b experimental. A web CMS is developed for Sindhi e-newspaper by using the following tools/technologies: JavaServer Faces, MYSQL and Apache Tomcat. Findings: All news material is set at the server in the Sindhi language and information is rendered precisely on account of the Unicode support. Novelty/improvement: Structured Web Content Management System is easy to understand that gives the news thing classifications. The web-based interface is accessible to peruse neighborhood news like Kawish, Express, and Dawn that are not much easy to understand and every substance is accessible in the picture group just as a composed substance that is the reason there is no scanning module to look for specific news things. We have organized and built up an application for neighborhood newspapers and provided a checking module to look for a required substance of the news content. The looking is unfathomably astoundingly smart since Apache Lucene is working at rear close during interest.Keywords: CMS, Apache Lucene, HTML, API, JCP, JVM

SOCCOMAS: a FAIR web content management system that uses knowledge graphs and that is based on semantic programming.

We introduce Semantic Ontology-Controlled application for web Content Management Systems (SOCCOMAS), a development framework for FAIR (‘findable’, ‘accessible’, ‘interoperable’, ‘reusable’) Semantic Web Content Management Systems (S-WCMSs). Each S-WCMS run by SOCCOMAS has its contents managed through a corresponding knowledge base that stores all data and metadata in the form of semantic knowledge graphs in a Jena tuple store. Automated procedures track provenance, user contributions and detailed change history. Each S-WCMS is accessible via both a graphical user interface (GUI), utilizing the JavaScript framework AngularJS, and a SPARQL endpoint. As a consequence, all data and metadata are maximally findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable and comply with the FAIR Guiding Principles. The source code of SOCCOMAS is written using the Semantic Programming Ontology (SPrO). SPrO consists of commands, attributes and variables, with which one can describe an S-WCMS. We used SPrO to describe all the features and workflows typically required by any S-WCMS and documented these descriptions in a SOCCOMAS source code ontology (SC-Basic). SC-Basic specifies a set of default features, such as provenance tracking and publication life cycle with versioning, which will be available in all S-WCMS run by SOCCOMAS. All features and workflows specific to a particular S-WCMS, however, must be described within an instance source code ontology (INST-SCO), defining, e.g. the function and composition of the GUI, with all its user interactions, the underlying data schemes and representations and all its workflow processes. The combination of descriptions in SC-Basic and a given INST-SCO specify the behavior of an S-WCMS. SOCCOMAS controls this S-WCMS through the Java-based middleware that accompanies SPrO, which functions as an interpreter. Because of the ontology-controlled design, SOCCOMAS allows easy customization with a minimum of technical programming background required, thereby seamlessly integrating conventional web page technologies with semantic web technologies. SOCCOMAS and the Java Interpreter are available from (https://github.com/SemanticProgramming).

Entry Life-Cycle with automatic Change-History & Provenance Tracking in collaborative Semantic Web Content Management Systems as implemented in SOCCOMAS

SOCCOMAS is a ready-to-use Semantic Ontology-Controlled Content Management System (http://escience.biowikifarm.net/wiki/SOCCOMAS). Each web content management system (WCMS) run by SOCCOMAS is controlled by a set of ontologies and an accompanying Java-based middleware with the data housed in a Jena tuple store. The ontologies describe the behavior of the WCMS, including all of its input forms, input controls, data schemes and workflow processes (Fig. 1). Data is organized into different types of data entries, which represent collections of data referring to a particular material entity, for instance an individual specimen. SOCCOMAS implements a suite of general processes, which can be used to manage and organize all data entry types. One category of processes manages the life-cycle of a data entry, including all required for changing between the following possible entry states: current draft version; backup draft version; recycle bin draft version; deleted draft version; current published version; previously published version. current draft version; backup draft version; recycle bin draft version; deleted draft version; current published version; previously published version. The processes also allow a user to create a revised draft based on the current published version. Another category of processes automatically tracks the overall provenance (i.e. creator, authors, creation and publication date, contributers, relation between different versions, etc.) for each particular data entry. Additionally, on a significantly finer level of granularity, SOCCOMAS also tracks in a detailed change-history log all changes made to a particular data record at the level of individual input fields. All information (data, provenance metadata, change-history metadata) is stored based on Resource Description Framework (RDF) compliant data schemes into different named graphs (i.e. a URI under which triple statements are stored in the tuple store). All recorded information can be accessed through a SPARQL endpoint. All data entries are Linked Open Data and thus provide access to an HTML representation of the data for visualization in a web-browser or as a machine-readable RDF file. The ontology-controlled design of SOCCOMAS allows administrators to easily customize already existing templates for input forms of data entries, define new templates for new types of data entries, and define underlying RDF-compliant data schemes and apply them to each relevant input field. SOCCOMAS provides an engine for running and developing semantic WCMSs, where only ontology editing, but no middleware and front end programming, are required for adapting the WCMS to one's own specific requirements.

Web Content Management Systems: An Analysis of Forensic Investigatory Challenges.

With an increase in the creation and maintenance of personal websites, web content management systems are now frequently utilized. Such systems offer a low cost and simple solution for those seeking to develop an online presence, and subsequently, a platform from which reported defamatory content, abuse, and copyright infringement has been witnessed. This article provides an introductory forensic analysis of the three current most popular web content management systems available, WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla! Test platforms have been created, and their site structures have been examined to provide guidance for forensic practitioners facing investigations of this type. Result's document available metadata for establishing site ownership, user interactions, and stored content following analysis of artifacts including Wordpress's wp_users, and wp_comments tables, Drupal's "watchdog" records, and Joomla!'s _users, and _content tables. Finally, investigatory limitations documenting the difficulties of investigating WCMS usage are noted, and analysis recommendations are offered.

A Comparative Study of Web Content Management Systems

Web Content Management Systems (WCMS) play an increasingly important role in the Internet’s evolution. They are software platforms that facilitate the implementation of a web site or an e-commerce and are gaining popularity due to its flexibility and ease of use. In this work, we explain from a tutorial perspective how to manage WCMS and what can be achieved by using them. With this aim, we select the most popular open-source WCMS; namely, Joomla!, WordPress, and Drupal. Then, we implement three websites that are equal in terms of requirements, visual aspect, and functionality, one for each WCMS. Through a qualitative comparative analysis, we show the advantages and drawbacks of each solution, and the complexity associated. On the other hand, security concerns can arise if WCMS are not appropriately used. Due to the key position that they occupy in today’s Internet, we perform a basic security analysis of the three implement websites in the second part of this work. Specifically, we explain vulnerabilities, security enhancements, which errors should not be done, and which WCMS is initially safer.

MyTF: A Joomla Template Design Package for Mobile Devices

Websites are created using programming languages such as HTML or content management systems (CMS). There are various technologies supporting the development of websites such as content management systems, JavaScript and ASP, thus numerous types of websites exist. Users access these websites through mobile devices and desktop systems. These users require access to websites that are easy to load, display content on small screens and have fast page loading speed. The existing web management systems are deficient in regards to meeting the needs of mobile device users. Thus, the aim of this project is to develop a template design package that will allow customized website access for mobile devices. The package utilized an existing web content management system platform called Joomla for the development while using the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) approach. The tested package showed compatibility on mobile devices with positive results.