Roll Your Own Content Management System

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Using Incremental Development and Open Source
Tools
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Me
Programmer-Analyst/Web-Database
Administrator Built first CMS (solo) over 1 year
in spare time about 3,500 hours. (I really
liked doing this.) Built second,
enterprise-level, CMS as part of a team of
developers took 10 months to version 1.0.
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Your choices
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Why choose build/open source?
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Why choose build/open source?
Can develop exact match for institutions needs
Customizable functionality
Upgrades and versioning incremental, controlled
by institutions schedule, not mandatory, more
manageable (not tied to typical yearly rollouts)
Web Standards/Accessibility compliance can be
ensured
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Why choose build/open source?
Widespread support community
Support frequently better than with commercial
products
Support community frequently includes the
original developers
Most of this support is FREE.
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Determining your requirements
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Building CMS components
Develop incrementally
Start with high-need, high-maintenance
information
News, Press Releases, Announcements
Calendar
Personnel Information contacts, vitae
Publications
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Start with user needs/expectations. What must you
present to them?
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Start with user needs/expectations. What objects
must you present to them?
Media
Links to more information
Links to related stories
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What functionalities are required?
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What functionalities are required?
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What functionalities are required?
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What functionalities are required?
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What functionalities are required?
Multiple displays for multiple venues
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What functionalities are required?
Multiple displays for multiple venues
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What functionalities are required?
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What functionalities are required?
Administrative Forms
Login/Security/Permission Levels
Workflow Add, Update, Editorial Review
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What technologies?
ColdFusionPhPJavaPythonASPPerlRuby
SQLOraclePostgreSQLMySQLFile-based
WindowsUnixLinux
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Develop thedata structure
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Develop the public interface
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Develop the administrative interface
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CMS components
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Airplane view of coreCMS data structure v 1.0
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Building CMS components
Start small.
Develop incrementally.
Create a robust, scalable data structure.
Roll out changes early and often.
Make your users part of the development process.
Fix bugs quickly.
Leverage open source.
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Leveraging open-sourceA few examples of what I
have used
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Leveraging open-sourceA few examples of what I
have used
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Leveraging open-sourceA few examples of what I
have used
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Open-source content management systems
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Open-source content management systems
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Open-source content management systems WebLion
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Open-source content management systems WebLion
Project is 6 months old.
Free downloads for academic and administrative
units around Penn State.
Partnership/support option.
Currently about 10 Zope Web sites at Penn State.
Out-of-the-box templates that comply with
University policy AD54 (Web Standards/Section
508/Design Standard).
Interoperability Web services, including RSS,
XML RPC, and Soap.
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Open-source content management systems WebLion
Customization of Zope
First released in 1998.
Most popular open source content management
framework in the world.
By far.
More than a million downloads worldwide.
Application framework that makes use of plug-ins.
Built with the Python
Uses Plone Plugin
Most popular Zope CMS
Handles wide range of doc types
Supports Dublin Core
Built-in security
Workflow
Silva DMS supports DC and other metadata schemas
W3/Section 508 compliant
Most plugins are free
Browser-based content editing
Extensible customizable
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Resources
OpenSourceCMS Try Before You Install.....
opensourcecms.com
Open Source Application Foundation.....osa
foundation.org
OpenLogic......openlogic.com

Web Standards in the Real World Molly Holschlag
talks about standards-compliant
CMS.........www
.uie.com/events/uiconf/articles/holzschlag_intervi
ew
Open-Source Calendars... www.devscripts.com/
PHP/Calendars
WebLion...weblion.psu.edu
CMS Watch......cmswatch.org
Determining Content Management System
Requirements........
.content.psu.edu/ppt/CMSRequirements
101104.ppt