A call for more discussion. Anyone else interested?

Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 13:39:20 -0400
To: Oliver Habicht
From: Peter Hirtle
Subject: CMS

Oliver:

I hope you read Adam's Tidbits article on Keith Kubarek's search for a CMS system for the journal. We need something similar for CUL.

Would it make sense for someone (you?) to invite Keith here to give a talk on what a CMS is, what it can do for you, and how to select one?

Peter

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Here's the article:
http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-675.html#lnk3

Useful URLs and info. from the talks. Also, see previously posted info.and additional links below.

From Tim Lynch's talk:
Zope: zope.org
Plone: plone.org
Example of how used by Tim: www.nal.usda.gov

From Paul Houle's talk:
Wiki: wiki.org
WebDAV: www.webdav.org

From Oliver Habicht's talk:
QuickTopic: www.quicktopic.com
Give it a try for getting rapid input on draft documents.
See Desktop Services' use of this service for discussions.
See results of using FTP to manage Desktop Services' "links" web site using FTP (Dreamweaver) on Library Systems' server.

Peter Hirtle notes:
There is an interesting recently-published article on Content Management Systems:

Arnold, Stephen E. "[18]Content Management's New Realities"
[19]Online27(1) p. 36-43 (Jan/Feb 2003)
(http://www.onlinemag.net/Jan03/arnold.htm). - Now that Knowledge
Management's gone sour, it's time to move on to Content Management
Systems. At least that's how it seems judging by the number of
articles appearing on the subject and the talk about it on various
listServs. This article actually does a good job of presenting the
issues involved in evaluating CM Systems. The author cautions us
that "organizations are indeed 'organic' and highly unique
creatures..." He goes on, "CM systems need to reflect this, which
can take more money and attention than first seems apparent". Good
point to keep in mind in the march to adapt CM Systems to specific
library needs. - [20]LRK

I noted the following text in particular:

ANTECEDENTS OF CONTENT MANAGEMENT
Another driver of CM has been the Web. Webmasters—often accused of being a bottleneck when it comes to moving content from the desk of the creator to the organization's Web site—want a system to get colleagues off their backs and onto a unified content creating and publishing system. Paper output and video streaming are of less importance than meeting the growing need to get content written, approved, and out to a Web site. Rollback functions, security, and enterprise integration come later in the process. Webmasters have a problem, and hundreds of software companies have come into being to solve this problem. A good list of content management companies is located in Google's directory [http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Site_Management/Content_Management/].

Updated: 3/10/03

[Originally posted: 3/5/03]

Here are the ideas so far:

Demo //using// (not deploying):

Zope/Plone (Tim Lynch, ITS; confirmed)

Wiki (Paul Houle, Library Systems; confirmed)

Dreamweaver/FTP "brute force" (Oliver; confirmed)
http://www.library.cornell.edu/dlit/ds/links/

Document review tool (QuickTopic) (Oliver; confirmed)
http://www.library.cornell.edu/dlit/ds/discuss/

Please send other ideas of things to demo, or who else to contact, to Oliver <oh10>. Thanks!