CMS Forum

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CMS Forum

• Introduction -- Peter Burkholder
• Josephine and Java OSS CMSs -- Leonard Sitongia
• Zope and Plone -- Chris Crownhart

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The DPC and the Content We Manage

• DLESE UCAR, CU, Carleton, Columbia
• Web Content
• Dreamweaver SFTP Rsync
• Swikis Squeak/Smalltalk-base WikiWiki
• Tomcat/Struts apps with uri includes
• Documents
• Dreamweaver SFTP Rsync
• Library metadata
• Tomcat/Struts DLESE Discovery System with XML ADN
  Metadata

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Web Authoring Projects

• DLESE Data Services
• Distributed authoring
• http//swiki.dlese.org/DataSvcsWkshp-04
• Need greater control and workflow
• DLESE Teacher Boxes
• Curriculum development toolkit
• Slidewarehttp//swiki.dlese.org/CA-Pilot/uploads/
  teacherDesign5.3.ppt

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CMS Requirements - Basic Example

• Workflow and roles
• Versioning
• Client side Browser or HTML editors
• Authorization linked to LDAP
• Presentation
• RSS, PDF, Threaded Discussion, etc
• Key points
• viability, ease-of-use, scalability, not getting
  more that we need

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CMS Options - Ugh!

• Open-source Software World
• At least 42 OSS CMS projects
• Commerical Software
• 4900/10 users -gt 160,000 (Teamsite)
• Lots of churning
• Evaulation
• CMS Report 1350 for single-user copy

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CMS Arbitrary Shortlist

• Java/Tomcat (fits w/ DPC infrastructure)
• Josephine
• Apache Lenya/Slide/Cocoon/Forrest
• Zope CMF and Plone CMS
• Good buzz, Mature
• Bricolage
• Big player Mason, mod_perl, PostgreSQL
• Fedora (http//www.fedora.info)
• Cornell OSS Digital Repository Mgmt Sys

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What now?

• Talk to people who know more than we do.