JSR-170 is a proposed standard for accessing content management repositories from Java.
Category: Content Management
Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Web Content Management (WCM), Document Management (DM). Whatever you call it this category covers market happenings and lessons learned.
I finished Ann Rockley’s Managing Enterprise Content on the way to the IBM CM & Portal conference last week. The book is a pretty high-level overview of content management, in general. I’d say it would be of most use to those new to the area, people putting together content management proposals, companies writing RFP’s, or managers (business or IT) with responsibility for content management projects or organizations. There’s enough detail to put together a general project approach or help look for potential areas to capture ROI, but not enough for project managers to develop a project plan or for developers or architects to design a solution.
The subject area is content management, in general, which includes web content management. Even with the caveats I’ve given, I’d still say it is recommended/required reading for people working in the space.
OSCOM Wrapup. Here are the slides from OSCOM keynote at Harvard on Friday. The title of the talk was: “Everything you need to know about content management, you (should have) learned in grade school.” [Jon’s Radio]
Content management and information architecture. Tony Byrne from CMSWatch interviews Lou Rosenfeld on the relationship between content management and information architecture. To quote: I think it’s really hard to separate the two because with both types of users — people working with the content versus… [Column Two]
Good stuff on CM versus IA. Lou Rosenfeld is the co-author of O’Reilly’s IA book (the Polar Bear book).
Open-source CMS: Prohibitively fractured?. Tony Byrne of CMSWatch has written an article on the current state of open source CMSs. To quote: Linux and Apache continue to win hearts and minds. Interestingly, however, the major open-source content management projects have not advanced as rapidly… [Column Two]
Good article for those of us who have worked with custom, open source, and proprietary/commercial CM solutions. Tony points out that the commercial vendors are actually starting to become more open and standards-based than the open source alternatives.
Here’s a good article on revamping your intranet. It starts by identifying the warning signs of a fading intranet and then outlines a good approach for tackling the problem. The sixteen steps outlined are in-line with the major steps we’ve used with clients on enterprise content management and portal projects.
Building a metadata-based website. Brett Lider and Anca Mosoiu write about a very different approach to site creation: a metadata-based website. To quote: The online world has been flooded in recent years with talk of metadata, structured authoring, cascading style sheets (CSS). These ideas… [Column Two]
From my co-worker, Patrick Dawson, via email:
I think the following article is very helpful to anyone who is trying to learn about how to write custom Java methods to be used with Documentum workflows. It’s also interesting because its sample code transforms an XML source document dropped into a workflow package. Finally, the sample code uses the source document’s keywords to pass parameter values into the Java code. The parameter discussed in the example indicates whether the XSLT transformation output should be stored as a rendition, as an improted object in the docbase, or on the local file system.
Popular paper: metrics for KM & CM. I received an e-mail today from ITpapers.com, informing that I have won some sort of monthly prize for having written one of their most-downloaded articles. Apparently, the article Metrics for knowledge management and content management is much in demand. [Column Two]
Recent KM & CM presentations. I’ve finally had a chance to upload the Powerpoint files from my recent conference presentations. Happy reading: KM Challenges 2003Melbourne, 2 April 2003″Managing explicit knowledge: Intranets and content management”[Powerpoint presentation] (99kB) Website Content and Performance Management for GovernmentCanberra, 25 March… [Column Two]