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Build Your Information Architecture (Data Model)
25. August 2025
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You can build your data model and permission sets from scratch. You are completely free to do so, but we suggest talking to a Fotoware Alto solution specialist for best practice advice. If you decide to do it yourself, you should ask yourself several questions before starting to configure the Content Platform.
A Simplified Model
Ask yourself the following questions:
Translate your model to Fotoware Alto
1. What type of content will you manage? (LAYER) |
| Input 1: Corporate Identity |
| Input 2: Brands |
| Input 3: Products |
2. What information do you need per type? (FIELDS ON THE LAYER) | |
| Corporate Identity | Brand (Tagbox), Department (Tagbox) |
| Brands | Location (Tagbox), Date (Date) |
| Products | Family (Tagbox) |
3. What means the information - what is a brand? |
(LIST) | (LIST ITEM) |
| Corporate Identity | Brand | Picturepark, VIT |
| Brands | Department | Marketing, PR |
| Products | Location | Aarau |
4. What are additional information per tag? | |||
| Corporate Identity | Brand | Picturepark | Name, Abbreviation, Markets (Tagbox) |
| Brands | Department | Marketing | Name, Department Head, Team members, Location |
| Products | Location | Aarau | City, Country, Market |
You can collect this information however you like. You can build an Entity Relationship Model, use Excel, or use your preferred mind mapping tool—whatever helps you get an overview of the content you have and the information you need.
- Layers (basically your content types) to create.
- Fields per Layer (including the Lists for the Tagbox fields)
- Lists and List Items (basically every tagbox)
- Fields per List (which may link to other Lists again)