Content Management Professionals (CM Pros), the international content management community of practice, announced that three geographic communities have been formed under its new member-driven committee process: The CM Pros Australia Community, The CM Pros Canada West Community and The CM Pros Benelux Community. The stated purpose of The CM Pros Australia Community is to provide Australian content management professionals with networking opportunities, a forum for examining content management topics of interest, promotion of content management in Australia, educating on content management and developing mutual opportunities. Their next meeting is scheduled for October 17, 2005 in Middle Park, Victoria. The stated purpose of The CM Pros Canada West Community is to provide a local forum where professionals engaged in content management can learn and share information about content management to further the body of knowledge in this field. The stated purpose of The CM Pros Benelux Community is to provide content management professionals with networking opportunities, a forum for exchanging and examining content management topics of interest, promoting and professionalizing content management in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, and educating on content management and developing mutual opportunities. These first three CM Pros Communities united more than 100 members in a common purpose: to support content management professionals as they strive for excellence in this increasingly important discipline. CM Pros also announced that its membership now exceeds 500 content management professionals. http://www.cmprofessionals.org
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 231 of 469)
This category includes editorial and news blog posts related to content management and content strategy. For older, long form reports, papers, and research on these topics see our Resources page.
Content management is a broad topic that refers to the management of unstructured or semi-structured content as a standalone system or a component of another system. Varieties of content management systems (CMS) include: web content management (WCM), enterprise content management (ECM), component content management (CCM), and digital asset management (DAM) systems. Content management systems are also now widely marketed as Digital Experience Management (DEM or DXM, DXP), and Customer Experience Management (CEM or CXM) systems or platforms, and may include additional marketing technology functions.
Content strategy topics include information architecture, content and information models, content globalization, and localization.
For some historical perspective see:
https://gilbane.com/gilbane-report-vol-8-num-8-what-is-content-management/
The XForms Working Group has released “XForms 1.0 (Second Edition)” as a Proposed Edited Recommendation. The document brings the XForms 1.0 Recommendation up to date with first edition errata, and aligns the specification with implementations. Comments are welcome through 3 November. XForms is the new generation of Web forms. XForms separate presentation and content, minimize round-trips to the server, offer device independence and reduce the need for scripting. http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
IXIASOFT announced the availability of TEXTML Server 3.6. IXIASOFT has extended TEXTML Server’s functionality by providing users with new features enabling them to manage, search and sort extremely large document bases. Developed for the management of large volumes of content, the TEXTML Server “Meta Services” feature enables users to query multiple document bases from a single and/or multiple physical servers as if they were querying one single document base. TEXTML Server 3.6 now enables users to access fragments of a document upon a search result, instead of the whole document. This feature maximizes the speed at which search results can be obtained. For example, users can select to have only specific fields returned (ie. Title and Author) which optimizes the access of search results and reduces the amount of processing (XSLT) required on the application tier, especially when dealing with large volumes of documents. http://www.ixiasoft.com
X1 Technologies, Inc. announced the immediate availability of X1 Workgroup Edition, an enterprise search solution targeted for small and medium-sized companies. X1 Workgroup Edition employs the same solution for information search and delivery as X1 Enterprise Edition but is scaled for smaller server environments. It combines the user interface from the X1 Desktop Search solution with workgroup-specific network content components and permits business users to search, preview, and act upon data, no matter where it resides in the corporation.
Based on the X1 desktop search solution, X1 Workgroup Edition locally indexes PC desktop content and integrates it with indexed server content for searching, viewing, and acting on information, including current and archived data. X1 Workgroup Edition is available for single-server installations of less than 200 seats, with no limit on the number of documents indexed. X1 Workgroup Edition starts at $5,000 which includes the desktop client, content connector for files, workgroup server, deployment manager, server manager, customer support and version upgrades. http://www.x1.com
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) and Messaging Architects announced an OEM partnership to strengthen the search capabilities of Messaging Architects’ GWArchive. Messaging Architects will embed GWArchive with FAST InStream, an OEM-specific enterprise search solution developed specifically to meet the complex application-based search requirements of independent software vendors (ISVs). Messaging Architects’ GWArchive is a solution for managing the archiving, retention, regulatory compliance and retrieval of email messages and other documents electronically stored in GroupWise mailboxes. FAST InStream will enhance GWArchive by enabling dynamic categorization and instantaneous retrieval of critical information. http://www.messagingarchitects.com, http://www.fastsearch.com
Quadralay Corporation announced the immediate availability of its software solution for creating online content, WebWorks ePublisher Pro for Adobe FrameMaker. WebWorks ePublisher Pro is a completely re-engineered, XML-based version of Quadralays single-source online publishing solution and is compatible with FrameMaker 7.2. WebWorks ePublisher Pro for FrameMaker gives users the ability to create customized content for the Web, intranets, professional online Help systems, portable devices, enterprise-ready XML, or PDFs. WebWorks ePublisher Pro for FrameMaker includes a new interface and XML-based processing for improved performance. The new application also includes an online content-preview window for visual style development, and GUI-based advanced customizations. A new feature called IntelliStyles automatically imports an authors preexisting FrameMaker styles into a WebWorks ePublisher Pro project. Adobe FrameMaker 7.2 software includes WebWorks Publisher Standard Edition 8.0. WebWorks ePublisher Pro is priced at US$1,395 for authors, and internationally for US$1,515. WebWorks ePublisher Pro for Word is available for purchase by authors for US$1,000, and internationally for US$1,100.
XyEnterprise announced a new packaged offering for creating and publishing documentation for air, sea, and land vehicles used by the military. The new XyEnterprise offering targets content compliant with the S1000D standard, which prescribes the mark-up used in authoring and exchanging technical content describing these complex systems. The standard is maintained by the Aerospace and Defense Industries Association of Europe and the Aerospace Industries Association in the US and is increasingly mandated for existing and new military programs. This new offering integrates XyEnterprise’s Content@ content management software with editorial, publishing and interactive electronic viewing technologies (“IETM”), providing a complete solution for content creation, management and delivery of S1000D compliant data. The Content@ Solution Set for S1000D contains a Common Source Data Base providing history, version control, workflow and security that is pre-configured to support the S1000D specification. In addition, the common source data base provides support for other structured data types in SGML or XML format as well as unstructured data, binary files, graphics and other forms of content.
Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ:HUMC) (NASDAQ: TSX:) (NASDAQ:HUM) announced the latest release of Hummingbird Integration Suite featuring Hummingbird Genio 6.0, the new version of its data integration platform that transforms, cleanses, enriches and directs information across the entire spectrum of decision support systems and enterprise applications. Hummingbird Genio is a data integration solution that spans the functional areas of data extract, transformation, and load (ETL) and enterprise application integration (EAI). At the core of Hummingbird Genio is an engine that controls the flow of data from various sources in a hub-and-spoke data exchange architecture. An integral component of Hummingbird Enterprise, Hummingbird Genio provides content integration capabilities between the Hummingbird Enterprise content management solution and external applications and content repositories. It allows migration and consolidation of content repositories without programming or data staging. http://www.hummingbird.com
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