Allowing access to structure content and content events via programming interfaces
All website content should held in a storage mechanism that is not just robust and reliable, but also allows for the content to be accessed and retrieved by systems other than the website.
Of course the storage mechanism should be able to manage different types of content like unstructured documents, files, images, audio, video and structured data, keeping full version histories of all content. It should also provide interfaces that can notify external systems of changes to the content it holds.
All of this should be done using standard storage technologies to avoid the content being locked into a proprietary database structure.
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