Fundamental to modern [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_architecture Information Architectures], and driven by [http://www.webreference.com/internet/semantic/ Semantic Web] technologies, Content re-appropriation is the act of searching, filtering, gathering, grouping, and aggregation which allows information to be related, classified and identified. This is achieved by applying syntactic or semantic meaning though intelligent tagging or artificial interpretation of fragmented content (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework Resource Description Framework]). Hence, all information becomes valuable and interpretable.

==Domain==

Since the domain of Content applies to areas of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_applications Software Applications], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documents Documents], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media Media], these can be processed though a pipeline of generation, aggregation, transform-many, and serialization (see [http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-pipeline/ XML Pipeline]). The output of this can viewed in a medium most effect for decision making.

The desired outcomes of Content re-appropriation are:

*Seamless, Integrated, and Shared User experiences

*Visualization

*Detection, Analysis & Investigation

*Personalization unique to the User

*Inbound or Outbound Syndication of Information

*Publish or Subscribe to Information

*Dynamically adapted output to Users medium

Essentially to make information disparities transparent to the User - getting to the bottom line quickly.

==Areas of Use==

Content re-appropriation is effective across the Content-Tier, that is places where Content exists:

*Identity & Directory Management e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDAP LDAP], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAML SAML] & [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JNDI JNDI]

*Content Management e.g. [http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/ Apache Slide]

*Content Systems e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_System File Systems], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Mail E-Mail],[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_share Network Shares], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAN SAN] & [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database Database]

*Business Systems e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_resource_planning ERP] & [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management CRM]

*Data Warehouse e.g. OLAP

*Internet & Web Services e.g. HTTP & SOAP

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messenger Presence] & [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_to_peer Peer-To-Peer]

= Related Concepts =