Plone A Content Management System

Agenda The issue What is Plone? Why Plone? What can Plone do? NCI-DCEG Experience What is the cost? Who is using Plone? Books

The issue

What is Plone?

Why Plone?

What can Plone do?

NCI-DCEG Experience

What is the cost?

Who is using Plone?

Books

The Issue Large studies that involve multiple disciplines, centers and investigators Goal: to communicate more rapidly with more people Solution: Collaboration Portals using Plone

Large studies that involve multiple disciplines, centers and investigators

Goal: to communicate more rapidly with more people

Solution: Collaboration Portals using Plone

What is Plone? Open source content management system (CMS) Freely downloadable software under a general public license (GPL) - No license fee required - Download from http://plone.org Plone is standard - follows standards for usability and accessibility; compliant with WAI-AAA & US Section 508 Widely tested in browsers on multiple platforms

Open source content management system (CMS)

Freely downloadable software under a general public license (GPL) - No license fee required - Download from http://plone.org

Plone is standard - follows standards for usability and accessibility; compliant with WAI-AAA & US Section 508

Widely tested in browsers on multiple platforms

Why Plone? Content Management features: Access via standard Web browsers WYSIWYG editing interface Tools to create/control basic HTML features, including tables, font, form elements, image insertion Support for multilingual content Integration of content or documents produced through other Web authoring applications (e.g., Dreamweaver)

Content Management features:

Access via standard Web browsers

WYSIWYG editing interface

Tools to create/control basic HTML features, including tables, font, form elements, image insertion

Support for multilingual content

Integration of content or documents produced through other Web authoring applications (e.g., Dreamweaver)

Why Plone? (2) Workflow tool - allows for editorial approval before publication Searching - fast, full-text searching Comes with Dublin core metadata standards 100+ add-on products - most are open source

Workflow tool - allows for editorial approval before publication

Searching - fast, full-text searching

Comes with Dublin core metadata standards

100+ add-on products - most are open source

NCI-DCEG Experience Collaboration portal features: - group distribution lists - message board - calendar with the capacity to embed meeting agendas and minutes - serves as a repository for many essential documents, such as protocols and published papers - allows roles to be assigned to users example: manager, reviewer or member

Collaboration portal features:

- group distribution lists

- message board - calendar with the capacity to embed meeting agendas and minutes

- serves as a repository for many essential documents, such as protocols and published papers - allows roles to be assigned to users

example: manager, reviewer or member

NCI-DCEG Experience Intranet using Plone Pros: - Site administrators add content - Easy to keep content updated - Encourages content production - Leads to more people using the intranet actively - Strong focus on end-user usability - Most users need minimal training Cons: - Customer support is weaker than for commercial products - Security is complex - Content publishing is harder without knowledge of HTML

Intranet using Plone

Pros: - Site administrators add content - Easy to keep content updated - Encourages content production - Leads to more people using the intranet actively - Strong focus on end-user usability - Most users need minimal training

Cons: - Customer support is weaker than for commercial products - Security is complex - Content publishing is harder without knowledge of HTML

What was the cost? Require a server – Unix, Windows or Solaris Two weeks of programmer time that included: - requirements analysis - set up of the server - set up of a template portal site - training of users The approximate cost was $10,000 (excluding the cost of the server)

Require a server – Unix, Windows or Solaris

Two weeks of programmer time that included: - requirements analysis - set up of the server - set up of a template portal site - training of users

The approximate cost was $10,000 (excluding the cost of the server)

Who Uses Plone? Oxfam America - http://www.oxfamamerica.org/ United Nations http://www.undp.org/ NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ NASA’s Mars Rover Website http://mars.telascience.org/home

Oxfam America - http://www.oxfamamerica.org/

United Nations http://www.undp.org/

NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/

NASA’s Mars Rover Website http://mars.telascience.org/home

Try Plone A Plone demonstration site is available at: http://demo.plone.org

A Plone demonstration site is available at:

http://demo.plone.org

Books Definitive Guide to Plone Andy McKay, APress Building Websites with Plone Cameron Cooper, Packt Publishing Plone Live Michel Pelletier, Munwar Shariff, Sourcebeat Plone Content Management Essentials Julie C. Meloni, SAMS

Definitive Guide to Plone Andy McKay, APress

Building Websites with Plone Cameron Cooper, Packt Publishing

Plone Live Michel Pelletier, Munwar Shariff, Sourcebeat

Plone Content Management Essentials Julie C. Meloni, SAMS

DEMO PLONE SITE