Category: Industry Standards

This Content Geeks article (which is written by Nuxeo staff) considers various types of ECM standards: “Standards Matter, but Don’t Be Blind“.   This article reviews the main types and related technologies by sub-dividing them into 3 broad categorisations:

• Interoperability: CMIS specifically but also WSS (SharePoint), WebDAV and CIFS

As described in both this article and this one by CMSWire.com, the days of proprietary plug-ins like Flash and Silverlight look numbered.  From the first article about Flash:

“Shunned by Apple’s iOS and Windows Phones, and offering a spotty experience on Android, Flash on mobile platforms has had …

Stefan Waldhauser writing on The Digital Landfill blog predicts that 2011 will be the “Year of CMIS” and offers eight reasons why:

1. CMIS is the “SQL” for Enterprise Content Management
2. CMIS is supported by the main industry players
3. CMIS is accepted by customers*
4. CMIS will end vendor lock-in
5. CMIS enables

CMS integrator and services provider, Generis have conducted a customer survey about CMS priorities for 2011 amongst their customers and associates.  The survey asked seven key questions covering various topics:

• What current ECM platform(s) does your company use?
• Are you looking to merge / move / reduce / expand ECM

As reported on this ZDNet blog post by professional Microsoft watcher, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft have been somewhat less enthusiastic about Silverlight than HTML5 over the last few months and this has been the source of some irritation for those developers who invested time and effort into learning the technology:…

Microsoft have released the SharePoint 2010 CMIS connector in this announcement on the MSDN blog by Ryan Duguid (Senior Product Manager at MS):

“I’m pleased to announce that we have Released to Web, the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Connector for SharePoint. The CMIS Connector for SharePoint ships as …

Zohar Babin, head of developer relations at Kalutra presents an alternative view on the Flash vs HTML5 debate from the perspective of a Flash developer.  He makes some valid points about the shortcomings of HTML5 while emphasising that he is supporter of it:

“HTML5 promise is to be …

Most readers of DAM News are probably actively involved in using and providing XML data on a daily basis and few would doubt that it will be actively used for the foreseeable future.  Computing history, however, is full of examples of file formats that were once considered essential building blocks …

Peter Heneback discusses why the pursuit of a collection of reusable and standardised industry services proposed by the Framework for Interoperable Media Services (FIMS) Task Force, a joint working group set up the Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA), will fail without widespread vendor adoption of open IT standards and robust …

As reported on Tech Crunch, document aggregator, Scribd claims that abandoning Flash in favour of HTML5 has helped increase levels of user engagement and that the move has paid off for them as a result:

“In early May, Scribd announced its plans to ditch Adobe’s Flash and began …

As discussed on the Sencha blog last week in this article by Michael Mullany, HTML5 is gathering pace and rapidly becoming commonplace on mobile devices due to the widespread use of the Webkit browser engine and because replacement rates are much faster than desktop or notebook PCs.

“Not …

Writing on StreamingMedia.com, Jeroen Wijering and Zachary Ozer from LongtailVideo.com (developers of the JW Media Players used by numerous sites and DAM systems) take Apple to task over their blurring of the lines between actual HTML 5 standards and the Apple-specific Safari/QuickTime technology stack.  Their article: “Note to …