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Interested Parties
John Feriera (Cornell), ~jayshao Jason Jason, Chris Cris Holdorph, Tom Tom, Elliot Metsger (JHU), Ryan Shelley (CSUN), Howard Kim (UCLA), Gaston Gonzalez (UCR), Katya Sadovsky (UC Irvine), ~katya Natalie Godfrey (UC Irvine), PatrickB, Robert Robert (U Hull), Lennard Fuller (Deactivated)
Resources Available
Vision
A channel/portlet that allows users to select content from an external CMS to include within a uPortal install. Some kind of interface which allows selection of content, partnered with the ability to display content from the CMS, and possibly build navigation to allow navigation within a tree, etc.
This is NOT envisioned as connecting to specialized systems like LMS, VLE, etc - more of a way to get structured, static content into a portal instance.
Notes
- lots of interest
- first steps probably involve surveying which CMS's are in common use, and what if any remote APIs they may have for content
- Could use to pull Confluence content into clearinghouse for instance
- users & permissions
Possible Integration Candidates
JSR 170 Compatible
- Jackrabbit
- Alfresco
- Also offers an open source JSR 168 portlet. With a small number of modifications to the war this portlet can be deployed and published into uPortal 2.5.3 successfully.
- eXo (yes, they have a JSR 170 implementation as well as a portal)
- jeceira (project does not seem to be very active)
Hypercontent
- GAPS compatible?
- JA-SIG product
Plone
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- Built on the Python based Zope Application Server
Confluence & Other Wikis
- used by clearinghouse
- Web Services / remote SOAP/JAX-RPC apis
- Better/Alternative RSS support
Sharepoint
- lots of people seem to have installations
Blogs
- Movabletype, Wordpress, Blogger, etc.
Vignette?
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Atom Support
- IETF proposed standard (RFC4287)
- Syndication Format
- Publish/Author Format