open standards and open source mean open for business cms expo session mc-kinnon may 2012
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Session delivered at CMSExpo May 2012 by Cheryl McKinnon. Session outlines the Web's 3 O's - open standards, open source and open data and their importance in the content management sectorTRANSCRIPT
Open Standards, Open Source, Open for Business
Cheryl McKinnon@CherylMcKinnon
www.aiim.org
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Great Shoes...
This is my friend Arlene
We worry about the same things
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...Awesome Pants
This is Fred Wildon Fickett...
He has splendid pants
Courtesy of: ConsortiumLibrary.org
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• We are transitioning from the era of “Systems of Record” to that of “Systems of Engagement”
• Most content on the web today is intended for short term engagement
• Communication not designed for easy capture or preservation
• But... my friend's “awesome shoes” are the next century's “splendid pants”
Electronic Ephemera or Historian's Delight?
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• The Web's 3 O's– Open Standards – Open Source– Open Data
• How do we connect the dots in a better way?
Agenda
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Open Standards are Essential to Content
Management
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• Metadata• Portability and Interoperability• Preservation
Open Standards – Why?
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• I Can't Read My Master's Thesis Anymore
The Real Why?
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• Build common ground applications• Cross-application findability• Be part of bigger web initiatives to
connect data and content– Linked Data Initiative– Machine readable connections
among entities, URLs– Enrich data by using other sources
about same thing
Open Standards – Metadata
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• Dublin Core– Initiated by academic, museum and archive
institutions, wide adoption in content management systems
– Core elements of metadata• XML
– W3C, Human Readable• Vertical-Specific
– OASIS – LegalXML for electronic filing– EDRM.net for information exchange across
eDiscovery platforms
Open Standards – Metadata
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• Schema.org– Consortium led by Google,
Microsoft, Yahoo– Standard web schemas
designed to improve search and findability
– Shared markup vocabulary
Open Standards – Metadata
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• CMIS (started 2006, ratified 1.0 in 2010)– OASIS managed, interoperability across
document-centric content management systems• WEMI (new project)
– OASIS managed, interoperability across web-centric content management systems
– 35 charter members• OpenSocial
– An Open API more than a “standard”– Google initiated, frameworks under Apache– For social networking, portal and collaboration
systems
Open Standards – Interoperability
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• Harvest from Content Silos, Don't Smash Them
• Find common ground across repositories and applications
• Use Cases for – Repository to Repository– Federated Repositories– Application to Repositories
Open Standards – Interoperability
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• Still much work to be done...– Document-centric content
ODF (OASIS) and PDF/A (ISO)– Images/graphics PNG– Video, audio, rich media still
has much work to be done
Open Standards – Preservation
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• Web and Mobile– Closed vs. Open
•Apps vs Web– Don't confuse authoring and
consumption preferences with preservation
Open Standards - Preservation
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• Is there an internal company retention policy for external communication?
• How long must content be stored, even after removed from web site
• Institutional memory, audit, electronic discovery, historical requirements
Preservation of Content
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Open Source Levels the Playing Field for Doing Business on the Web
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• Beyond Web Content Management...• Document and Records Management• Scanning / Capture• Workflow and BPM• Analytics and Reporting• Data Management• Collaboration and Social Platforms• ...Entire Lifecycle of Digital Content from
Creation to Delivery to Disposition now a Reality
Open Source – Full Spectrum
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• Content Management professionals can now think about the entire business lifecycle of content– Manage, enrich, revise and
approve it across deeper spectrum of business process
Open Source – Full Spectrum
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• Organizations can take back their enterprise and web content management roadmap
• Flexibility to move to cloud, mobile or expand deployments without red-tape of typical vendor licensing
• Mature support systems back most major projects
Open Source – Full Spectrum
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Open Data Delivers the Opportunity of Big Data to
Everyone
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• Not hype, but new perspectives on citizen and consumer behavior
• Big data problems might not be your own
• Unleash the hidden power of public and private sector data
Open Data – New Perspectives
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• Success of open data initiatives dependent on other “O”s– Open Source licensing models that
are non-restrictive and encourage use of data
– Open Standards for data that can be exchanged, used analyzed across range of external systems
• Put data to work, not let it languish in archives
Open Data – Needs Other O's
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• Open Standards and Open Source among the few real buffers against loss of digital artifacts
• Formats not controlled by vendors• Independence from hardware or operating
system platforms• Distributed source code management ensures
unprecedented availability and ability to rebuild
• Able to live outside lock down of digital rights management for appropriate educational and preservation use cases
Info Overload to Dark Ages 2.0
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Fighting 19th Century Battles
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