The GCube Information Organisation Services

The Information Organisation services are dedicated to the management of content in gCube, including storage, access, description and annotation.

Central to the subsystem is the Content Manager (CM), a service that provides uniform read and write access to content stored in (or in turn accessed through) a wide variety of back-end services, both inside and outside the system.

One distinguished back-end of the CM is the Storage Manager (SM), a service that holds and serves content within the system.

Two distinguished clients of the CM are the Metadata Manager (MM) service and the Annotation Manager (AM), two services that describe and annotate content, respectively.

All the services in the subsystem align with the design principles and mechanisms of a common architecture, the Open Content Management Architecture (OCMA).