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PLoP 2006 Shepherded Papers

Notes on Paper 4

2.
The paper "Web Content Management Patterns" (first author Yoab Gorfu)
describe several patterns for web content management. The patterns
describe ways to store and distribute information content and
presentation data, personalize data to a given costumer, and aggregate
content from other providers.

Unfortunately, after overcoming initial communication problems, I
received no feedback about the comments and suggestions I've sent to the
authors. Follows some considerations about the paper.

The pattern format is adequate and also quite consistent through the
paper. The text addresses the main concerns that a web site content
manager must be aware of in a very concise way, but it is so concise
that sometimes it lacks information. The paper would benefit of having a
"Consequence" section describing the positive and negative consequences
of applying the patterns and it also misses a "Known Uses" section,
describing example(s) of the pattern usage. Some miner technical points
needs some clarification.

--
Francisco José da Silva e Silva

based on the explanation below I would not recommend the paper Web Content
Management Patterns to be accepted for a PLoP workshop.

I agree with the below comments from the shepherd. The paper is consistent,
and the patterns are clear and short,
but more work is needed. The paper as it is now is too simplistic, the
forces need elaboration, uses need to be
explained etc. The initial comments from the shepherd are very good, but
the authors have unfortunately not followed
up with revised versions. As PC member I should have followed up on this.
Still, the authors must be responsible
to make sure there is progress.

The paper in a more elaborated form could definitely be of interest and I
would suggest to invite them to re-submit
for a later PLoP conference.

Best regards,
Lise

 

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