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govuk-design-guide: content-model


layout: glossary-documentation sectionKey: Glossary eleventyNavigation: parent: Glossary title: Content model description: The content model is the output of doing content modelling. Content modelling organises, classifies and describes content so it can be understood and used by humans and computers.
details: 'Content modelling divides content into smaller pieces to support content reuse, findability and consistency.

Giving content structure at a more granular level than the ‘page’ enables better search, knowledge organisation and AI outcomes.

Content modelling defines:

  • the different content types you have (or could have) in your domain

  • the attributes that make up each content type

  • the relationships between the content types' synonym: 0: title: link: definition: nonPreferred: 0: title: link: definition: relatedTerm: 0: title: Domain model link: definition: this maps an organisation's core concepts and the relationships between them theme: Information layer order: 1