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Goals

Content as Code is an approach to develop workflows and technology to improve content re-use and maintainability.

It aims to make content authoring and management benefit from software engineering collaboration best practices.

Our design goals are to enable:

• Focused Writing
• Localisation and translation
• Low barrier to collaboration
• Track changes and manage contributions
• Content Reuse
• Multiple publication channels

Our technology approach builds on top of lightweight tools that separate concerns (instead of large monolithic frameworks as generally seen in CMSes):

• Using Git for version control
• Using Markdown and enhanced flavors of Markdown for authoring
• Support dependency tracking at the fragment level.
• Support static website generation and interoperability with content management systems
• Support a micro-service approach to providing commenting, statistics and other dynamic features.

Who?

Content as code is supported by a partnership. The partnership brings together implementers contributing to projects publishing free/libre and open source content and wanting to have a lightweight (post-CMS or CMS-Free) approach to content management that focus on the author experience (as well as editor and translator experience).

Read more about:

• Our approach and goals to editorial workflows
• The technology supporting content workflows
• The partner projects