Information
Description |
A channel to allow selection and inclusion of content generated and maintained by an external CMS system |
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Audience |
Portal Administrators, Content Administrators |
Category |
General Channels |
Priority |
medium |
Interested Parties
John Feriera (Cornell), ~jayshao, ~holdorph, Tom Tom, Elliot Metsger (JHU), Ryan Shelley (CSUN), Howard Kim (UCLA), Gaston Gonzalez (UCR), ~katya (UC Irvine), Natalie Godfrey (UC Irvine), ~pberry, Robert Sherratt (U Hull), ~lfuller
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
Hypercontent
- GAPS compatible?
- JA-SIG product
Plone
- 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.
Atom Support
- IETF proposed standard (RFC4287)
- Syndication Format
- Publish/Author Format