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CMIS Momentum Continues - Drupal CMIS Integration Available
February 24, 2009
Today in Open Source
Posted by: Ian Howells
I have previously written a number of posts about CMIS starting with - CMIS Top Ten Questions
http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1271&blogid=16
CMIS stands for Content Management Interoperability Services and is the most important standard in the content management industry for over a decade, being backed by all of the leading vendors. The standard has been submitted to OASIS and the CMIS Technical Committee recently met in Redmond, WA. The CMIS effort so far has been use case driven with the main use cases being collaborative content management, integration into portals, mashups and search. The early implementors (Alfresco, EMC, IBM, Microsoft, OpenText, Oracle and SAP - in alphabetical order ) participated in an interoperability session or "plug-fest" at a Redmond interop lab in August prior to making the spec public. And it worked. IBM, EMC and Alfresco have released 0.5 implementations.
The recent meeting saw a demonstration of Drupal accessing an Alfresco CMIS repository and that is what is being made available today. This is available for download at the Drupal project site
http://drupal.org/project/cmis_alfresco
The integration enables a user to:
- Retrieve content from the repository
- Navigate the repository
- Execute CMIS CQL queries against the repository
- Synchronize nodes between Drupal and the repository (two-way)
This is a common requirement earlier discussed by Dries Buytaert when commenting on the usage of Drupal at Amnesty International
http://buytaert.net/amnesty-using-drupal
More details on the functionality can be found at the following link where Jeff Potts of Optaros describes the project.
http://www.optaros.com/blogs/alfresco-drupal-cmis-integration-available
CMIS is set to be centre stage at AIIM this year in Philadelphia:
http://www.aiimexpo.com/aiimexpo/v42/index.cvn
Disclaimer - I work for Alfresco ( and after working in content management since 1993 believe that CMIS is set to be for content what SQL is for databases)
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Ian Howells Dr Ian Howells is chief marketing officer of Alfresco the open source content management company. He has 20 years of enterprise software marketing experience in content management, service oriented architectures and relational database systems. He publishes the pioneering Open Source Barometer.
