Content Management System for Asia-Pacific Regional
Information on Aquaculture
Summary : The Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA) is an intergovernmental
organization, at present with 15 member-governments and 4 participating governments. Organization aims to expand aquaculture development in the Asia-Pacific region by promoting coordinated research, training, information and expert exchange among the centres and institutions associated with the Network. With development of Internet. The information on aquaculture can disseminate and exchange though this channel using website. Major obstructs for this is how to organize
and growth of the content. And cost of for build supporting system. The systems that design for managing the content of a website is calling Content Management System (CMS), which consists of two components: Content approval application and content
submission application. Content approval application consists the module that allows author to manage the creation and modification and deletion of the content from the website without Hypertext Markup Language knowledge. And content submission application allow member in the community to submit content and related story and discussion to the central system. We have adopted to use this type of software that calls "XOOPS". XOOP is a dynamic OO (Object Oriented) based on open source portal script written in PHP language. This software has multilingual modules that are an idea choice for use in regional disseminates and exchange aquaculture information. The core features of this software can support developing scalable dynamic community websites. The supporting modules for information exchange i.e., RSS News feed and XML elements have been discussed.