Abstract: The present subject matter relates in general to system and method of content management and content life cycle management on a digital publishing platform. More specifically, the present subject matter relates to methods and systems for publishing, collaborating, distributing, managing, and subscribing digital contents and rights using a content-centric approach. Some such embodiments include receiving an electronic data item including at least one content item and based on a type of the electronic data item, identifying in a configuration-setting repository, a normalized data type for which the electronic data item is to be stored in. The electronic data item may then be transformed to the identified normalized form. Such embodiments may further extract content items from the electronic data item and performing a semantic analysis on each extracted content item to generate metadata descriptive of each respective content item. The extracted content items and metadata may then be stored.

Abstract: The present subject matter relates in general to system and method of content management and content life cycle management on a digital publishing platform. More specifically, the present subject matter relates to methods and systems for publishing, collaborating, distributing, managing, and subscribing digital contents and rights using a content-centric approach. Some such embodiments include receiving an electronic data item including at least one content item and based on a type of the electronic data item, identifying in a configuration-setting repository, a normalized data type for which the electronic data item is to be stored in. The electronic data item may then be transformed to the identified normalized form. Such embodiments may further extract content items from the electronic data item and performing a semantic analysis on each extracted content item to generate metadata descriptive of each respective content item. The extracted content items and metadata may then be stored.