Gentics is an Austrian software company that provides content management and portal software. It has 130 government customers in Austria and Germany, along with 700 completed CMS and portal projects. The document discusses how governments can create, share, and reuse content collaboratively using Gentics' technology. This includes allowing decentralized content creation across different levels of government, while standardizing properties and using APIs to store, edit, and retrieve content independently of specific CMS systems. The goals are to provide more accurate information at lower cost through collaborative content sharing.

1. open Government Content
how to create, share and reuse
content collaboratively

2. Gentics – who we are
• leading Austrian Content Management and
Portal Software company
• founded in 2000 in Vienna
• 130 customers (Government, Telecom,
Industry)
• 30 certfied partner in Austria and Germany
• 700 CMS & Portal projects completed
• 70.000 software users
www.gentics.com 1

3. eGov Customers
using Gentics Content Management and Portal Technology
http://www.verbrauchergesundheit.gv.at, http://www.gov-it.eu, http://www.help.gv.at, http://www.brz.gv.at,
http://portal.bmf.gv.at, http://www.bildok.at, http://www.mentoring-an-schulen.at,
http://www.oehwahl.gv.at, http://www.mitmachen.at, http://www.portal.at, http://www.vwgh.gv.at,
http://www.jugend2help.gv.at, http:// www.formularservice.gv.at, http://www.gesundheit.gv.at,
www.gentics.com
http://www.ama.at, http://www.myhelp.gv.at 2

4. eGov Content Portals
www.gentics.com 3

5. BRZ CMS Organization
www.gentics.com 4

6. Content Syndication Now
www.gentics.com

7. Create & Share Content
How to do it differently
• dezentralized content creation (ministries,
states, municipalities) using their own cms
system
• stanardized content properties (topics, legal
scope, owner, license, etc.
• standardized api for a content repositories for
storing content (search, link and retriev content)
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8. Create & Share Content
How to do it differently
• standardized api for editing content
independently of the CMS used
• reference for collaborative government content
editor independent of cms systems (e.g.
http://www.aloha-editor.com)
www.gentics.com 7

9. www.gentics.com 8

10. Summary & Advantages
Who and how we benefit
• More acurate, less redundant information
• Lower cost for content creation and
maintenance
• High quality content affordable for every
administration – state or miniciapl level
• Open api‘s and semantic technology could lead
to entirely new applications
www.gentics.com 9

11. Vielen Dank für Ihre
Aufmerksamkeit!
a.szlezak@gentics.com
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