GN3CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

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GN3 is the media-neutral Newspaper

content management system from
Tera Digital Publishing, a leader newspaper
content management technology.
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GN3 makes a single newsroom a cohesive reality rather than a disjointed collection of

systems. Designed, engineered and implemented by Tera Digital Publishing, GN3 provides

the features, integration and low cost of ownership that a modern-day newspaper requires.

GN3’s ability to equally support all media, print and electronic, is based upon

GN3’s Article-Based Content Management, industry-standard database and XML.

A database yields speed, organization and flexibility. XML brings flexibility,

and the ease of communications with other systems.

GN3 Content is organized into articles.

An article is a linked group of objects such headlines, pictures, audio and

video files, metadata, polls, picture galleries and all the things that only

a truly media-neutral system, like GN3, can manage. A GN3 system is

configured rather than customized, reducing Risk, Cost and Delay.

In a customized system, with each system update, there is only more Risk,

Cost and Delay.

The TED text editor supports both design-driven and content-driven production.
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Using GN3, each newspaper can make their own definition of an article.

For example, how many headlines, subheads, bylines, or picture galleries an article has.

Each item of content might be published in one or more print editions, on one or more

websites, on mobile devices; some content may be published on multiple medias. GN3

configuration makes all of this possible.

Content today comes from a multitude of sources.

Content generated in house is just one source. Content comes from staffers on the road,

occasional contributors, obituaries, readers, emails, and User-Generated Content (UCG).

The list grows and will not stop growing any time soon.

The task is to validate the incoming content, transform it into a usable form and placethat

content into the content management workflow.

GNPortal is the perfect tool to ingest, validate and transform content whether entered

manually through a website or electronically through e-mail, Webservices, RSS or wire

feeds. GNPortal is cost-effective and scalable and uses Tera’s, Content Management

Services Architecture.
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Tera’s CMSA is the architecture to manage the content formats and presentation

technologies of the future.

For print media, FRED, GN3’s Pagination tool, sends your paginator’s productivity skyward,

while protecting you’re expensive design. Privileged users can produce unique, award-

winning designed.

During routine page production, your style book is enforced yielding

the consistent appearance and features that readers prize.

FRED and GN3 properly support both layout-driven and content-

driven newspapers. Both editors and reports working on a story are

instantly updated whenever story length or geometry change – no

manual refresh or open-and-closing the page is required.

Zoning, multiple-editions and targeted content in your print

publications is just one more place where GN3 excels.

The Shell, the heart of GN3

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Pages are not duplicated to achieve zoning or editioning. There are no restrictions on the

differences or similarities among editions or the number of diff erent editions a page may

appear in. The user interface is visual and intuitive.

Portions of a page in one edition may contain one mix of editorial content and advertising

and a completely different mix in another edition. Your paper’s requirements determine the

differences between editions.

GN3’s centralized picture desk is just one more feature of the complete

GN3 editorial content management system. A single user interface

controls picture selection for both archiving and production.

Tera’s GNWeb provides complete preview capabilities, polling, blogs,

picture galleries, geo-tagging and the rich palette of features necessary

for a highly attractive web-presence that will attract readers and support

advertisers.

Wire photo search results in Shell show thumbnails on left, details on right.
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At any time, a correctly privileged user can send an article to web with a single

mouse click. One-Click-to-Web means that fast-breaking stories can be continually

updated encouraging readers to return over and over again to follow each day’s

events.

GN3’s archiving and audit tracking provide your organization with revenue sources

and research capabilities.

GN3 provides the complete audit tracking only a tightly integrated system can. What

changes were made, when, how and by who is always available for any content

managed by your GN3 system.

TARK+ search results encourage productivity.

Tark, Tera’s archiving system is the benchmark against which other archiving products are

measured. Tark is fast and provides capabilities that other systems strive for and fail to

deliver. Search for a term and see all the pages where that term was used. Click on a picture

and see everywhere that picture was used, even if it was cropped, transformed into back

and white or otherwise edited. ITPC headers and other metadata are kept intact. When an
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element is used and re-archived a new element isn’t created, Tark tracks that the element

is being reused.

If a query is too general, Tark+ will group the results, recognize places and people, and

suggest alternatives to return fewer results or suggest another query that

may yield better results.

GN3 is based on standards and professional industry standards such as

.NET, a standard SQL database and XML. GN3 is 100% XML, meaning that

communicating with other systems is well defined. When used with Tera’s

GNPortal, Web Services and Web forms are defined not programmed.

GN3 is fully compliant with ICC profiles and is ISO-2788 retrieval-standard

compatible. Color images are stored with their ICC profiles.

Related search results are automatically grouped.

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Tera’s NRM - Newsroom Manager - is a planning tool and resource manager that

coordinates people, time, projects and assets. Designed in cooperation with newsroom

editors, NRM manages the workflow involved in producing content. NRM is designed for

a newsroom’s Central Desk, the place where tasks are assigned, resources allocated and

deadlines defined.

Tera’s quality of engineering, configure-instead-of-customize and superb support mean

that a Tera system has a very low cost of ownership.

NRM, Newsroom Manager

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Tera’s customer loyalty, over 99%,

the highest of any vendor attests
to Tera’s customer satisfaction.
GN at a glance
•  rticle-Based Content Management based on XML
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• Intuitive handling of multiple editions
• Full database system
• Configured not Customized
• Media Neutral
• Integrated and automatically compiled archive
• GNWeb web product
• GNPortal Content Ingestion
• Integrated picture desk
• Integrated agency feeds
• Media-neutral Structured Content
• Full tracking capability
• Fast access to content
• Fully compliant with ICC profiles
• Standard platform hardware
• Simple intuitive interfaces
• Ease of installaton
• Flexible workflow approach
• Fully scalable
• Low cost of ownership
• Easy to integrate with existing solutions
• NRM newsroom management software
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