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 sector

1. Open Standards, Open Source,
Open for Business
Cheryl McKinnon
@CherylMcKinnon
www.aiim.org
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2. Great Shoes...
This is my friend
Arlene
We worry about
the same things
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3. ...Awesome Pants
This is Fred
Wildon Fickett...
He has splendid
pants
Courtesy of: ConsortiumLibrary.org
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4. Electronic Ephemera or Historian's Delight?
• 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
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6. Agenda
• The Web's 3 O's
– Open Standards
– Open Source
– Open Data
• How do we connect the dots in
a better way?
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7. Open Standards are
Essential to Content
Management
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8. Open Standards – Why?
• Metadata
• Portability and Interoperability
• Preservation
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9. The Real Why?
• I Can't Read My Master's Thesis
Anymore
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10. Open Standards – Metadata
• 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
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11. Open Standards – Metadata
• 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
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12. Open Standards – Metadata
• Schema.org
– Consortium led by Google,
Microsoft, Yahoo
– Standard web schemas
designed to improve search
and findability
– Shared markup vocabulary
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13. Open Standards – Interoperability
• 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
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14. Open Standards – Interoperability
• 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
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15. Open Standards – Preservation
• 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
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16. Open Standards - Preservation
• Web and Mobile
– Closed vs. Open
•Apps vs Web
– Don't confuse authoring and
consumption preferences
with preservation
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17. Preservation of Content
• 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
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18. Open Source Levels the
Playing Field for Doing
Business on the Web
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19. Open Source – Full Spectrum
• 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
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20. Open Source – Full Spectrum
• 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
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21. Open Source – Full Spectrum
• 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
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22. Open Data Delivers the
Opportunity of Big Data to
Everyone
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23. Open Data – New Perspectives
• 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
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24. Open Data – Needs Other O's
• 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
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25. Info Overload to Dark Ages 2.0
• 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
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26. Fighting 19th Century Battles
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27. Thank you.
Cheryl McKinnon
@CherylMcKinnon
www.aiim.org
cheryl@candystrategies.com
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