Types of content - Fluid Topics - 3.7

Fluid Topics Configuration and Administration Guide

Category
Reference Guides
Audience
public
Version
3.7

Each Fluid Topics portal has a set of processing pipelines to ingest content in its native format. For each archive published to the portal, Fluid Topics creates a publication.

In a Fluid Topics context, a publication can be made of several textual parts and embed some resources, or fully rely on a resource.

The following list presents the two types of publications with examples of each:

  • Structured publication: refers to information or content that has been broken down and classified using metadata. A Structured Publication is made of a succession of textual parts called topics and organized according to a table-of-contents structure. A topic is a textual part of a structured publication. It is associated to one or several structured publications through maps.

    A structured publication can also be called using the term Map, as it describes the publication structure without its topics.

    Examples of structured content:

    • DITA generated content
    • Author-it generated content

      Structured Publications can exist in two editorial types:

    • Article: a publication whose content is indivisible although it may be composed of multiple fragments. These fragments are also referred to as Article topics.
    • Book: a publication for which each piece of content can make sense separately. These fragments are also referred to as Book topics.
  • Unstructured publication: a publication that relies on a resource. A Resource is a binary or textual file that is self-sufficient (PDF files, text files, images, videos, archives like ZIPs...). Unstructured content can be divided into two types of documents:
    • Unstructured Documents: files intended to be indexed, such as PDF files, Word files, etc. They can be consulted on their own Unstructured Documents page on the portal also called the Viewer page, and metadata can be applied to the files using a dedicated control file. Such a publication can be referred to using the UD abbreviation.
    • Map Attachments: files intended to be attached to a structured publication, such as PDF files, videos, images, etc. They are not a part of the indexed content.

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By default, the size limit for content uploading is 1.85 GB.