Content Management System for Academia Information Sharing

The information sharing is one of the vital activities played by academia. Typically, academia shares their knowledge through articles which was distributed by the publisher of the article. The scope of the reader my limited to the reader subscribed to the publication. Thus, the existence of the articles may not widely known to the public. Website is one of the popular medium for academic information sharing. Through the website, academia can personalize the information, posting information related to their expertise area, lecture notes and etc. However, website development requires some technical knowledge on the web programming and web authoring tools. This factor encouraged academia to develop their personalize website. In addition, time also hinders the use of website as certain tasks such as preparing, updating and uploading the content required timely effort. Realizing these factors, a simple content management system specifically for academia is proposed. The finding shows that the proposed CMS is accepted as alternative tools for academic website developed with ease of use and easy to maintenance. Yet, the functionalities of the CMS still need to be improved.