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CMIS Top Ten Questions

September 16, 2008

1. What is CMIS

Posted by: Ian Howells

On September 10, 2008, OASIS member companies submitted a proposed charter for a new OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Technical Committee (TC). This series of posts addresses the top ten questions that have arisen as a result of that announcement.

  1. What is CMIS?
  2. What Problem Does CMIS Address?
  3. What Functionality Does CMIS Address?
  4. How does CMIS relate to other Standards?
  5. Which Vendors are involved in CMIS and how long have they been working on the Draft Specification?
  6. What will be the Impact of CMIS on the ECM Market?
  7. Why CMIS?
  8. How do I get access to the Draft Specification and what is the OASIS process?
  9. How can I start developing against the CMIS API today to prepare for tomorrow?
  10. How can I participate and comment on the Specification

1. What is CMIS?

CMIS stands for Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS). It is a draft specification submitted by leading ECM vendors to OASIS (the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) with the aim of becoming an ECM industry standard. One of the key words here is "Services". We are moving from a world of locked content to a world of "Content-as-a-Service" where content is simply and consistently accessible and can be mashed up in the way we take for granted on the web today.CMIS defines a domain model which consists of a:

  • Data Model - To consistently model content and properties
  • Services - To access the Content in a consistent way
  • Bindings - SOAP and REST/ATOM bindings

These are designed to be a layer on top of existing content management repositories offering a generic, universal set of capabilities applicable both within the enterprise and outside the firewall in the realm of Web 2.0

CMIS is not intended to:

  • Prescribe how features should be implemented within an enterprise content management (CM) repository
  • Expose all features provided by proprietary ECM systems

The drive towards a CMIS standard is important in order to accelerate more widespread adoption of CM and one of the reasons that all of the major ECM vendors have backed the draft specification.

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Bip Thelin said on Wednesday, 17 September 2008

I have some other questions: http://code.qbranch.se/post/show/37

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