What is “Content Engineering”?
What are its industrial prospects?
It is a new specialization with growing industry recognition. By 2020, it may emerge as one of the leading specializations and may gain equal popularity with remaining other mainstream engineering streams.
In most of the firms, techies from various closely related departments such as content production, content management and content processing work upon content-centric projects on ad hoc basis. However, it is very rare to find “Content Engineers” in IT and Engineering firms. Now, most of industry experts are of an opinion that they have overlooked one of the important streams of IT and engineering streams all these years.
What are training and academic prospects?
Presently, various corporations are hiring Engineering graduates with industry experience in closely related jobs and conducting various training programs to mould them as “Content Engineers.” Most of such programs are meant for training the candidates to cater to the needs of corporations and usually lack overall outlook of subject. Hence, some universities are offering “Content Engineering” as full-fledged engineering degree and graduates coming of such universities may cater to needs of the industry in future.
Whether it is an art or science?
Content engineering is both a science as well as an art as it demands both Software & IT skills on one hand and creativity, linguistic and communicative skills on other hand.
What are Software skills required?
Content Engineers need to be good at XML (as it is extensively used for representing structured content) and Content Management Systems (CMS).
Points to be noted
- The subject usually deals with content presented in computer-oriented environment.
- Content here not merely refers to Text but also to Audio, Video, Animations, and Graphics.
Written by: S. Chandrashekara Reddy
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