A Window Installation - Google SketchUp Workshop: Modeling, Visualizing, and Illustrating - page 99

Leveraging content means to repurpose it. It is great to create a single-
window installation step-by-step document, but it is even greater to
repurpose the SketchUp components, models, and materials; the text; and
the document itself in different formats, for different clients, and so on. It
is a simple concept - the more often content can be repurposed, the more
value it provides.
Our SketchUp components, models, and materials from the step-by-step
document exist in an organized series of folders as a library (database).
We could upload the text to a content management system (CMS) and
serve it to a website as, for example, a text-based series of steps or have
it automatically reassembled into an article. We like Umbraco, an open-
source CMS from Denmark based on Microsoft's ASP.NET. Or, we could
upload the illustrations to a data asset management system (DAMS) to
help manage them and allow others to readily search and locate them for
future uses. We use Cumulus 7, a DAMS solution from Canto that helps
arrange, share, and track different types of content. We have thousands
of illustrations and photographs stored in Cumulus. These examples are
just the start of a long list of tools to assist in leveraging the content. That
is the end goal when creating quality content - for it to live a long life in
many forms.
FiG 5.16 A final completed page.