Midgard
Not just a CMS

Henri
Bergius
henri.bergius@iki.fi
http://bergie.iki.fi

Finnish Midgard solution provider
www.nemein.com

Midgard is different

CMS Watch:
“Hanseatic league
of open source
Joint
content
venture
between management”
several
companies

Not just a CMS

Not just a CMS
Repository-oriented architecture
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Libgda provides database abstraction: SQLite,
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MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, ...
D-Bus signals provide interprocess
●
communications
Language bindings to C, PHP, Python, Mono
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(C#) and Objective-C
PHP is the main UI language
●

“Lego brick model”
Connect standard MidCOM components together to
build your site, then customize layout and
configuration

Integration with social web services
Import and provide RSS
●
feeds
Synchronize photos with
●
Flickr
Get location from Plazes
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Get status from Twitter,
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Jaiku or Qaiku
Aggregate and publish
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Microformats

The march to Midgard 2

Old Midgard –
codenamed
“Ragnaroek”
system is a
capable CMS
New Midgard2 –
codenamed
“Vinland” is where
IKS will be applied

Headed for the Semantic Web

Adding ontologies to MgdSchemas

Semantic indexing and SPARQL

Semantic tagging in WYSIWYG editor

Exposing more semantic data via
Microformats or RDFa

www.midgard-project.org - www.midgard2.org
Henri Bergius
Email: henri.bergius@nemein.com
XMPP: henri.bergius@nemein.com
Blog: http://bergie.iki.fi/
Microblog: bergie (Twitter & Qaiku)
Photos by myself, Toni Eliasz, Tuomas Kuosmanen and Fredrik Koivusalo