(About) IBM's content management strategy
I recently had a chance to look at IBM's direction
in content management. There are several solutions for content management in
IBM's portfolio right now. Some of them can work together. Some of them have
overlaps. And some of them do not have good integration with
others...
Strategic plan is (as I understood it) to leverage
JSR 170 to provide general unified interface to all content storages/products.
As addition to JSR 170, WebDAV can be used to some
extent.
It looks like JSR 170 will
address basic features important for content management in Java world. I
personally is interested in comparison JSR 170 with Microsoft's WinFS (and both
with Topic Maps).
Relevancy to Topic
Maps?
JSR 170 (and WinFS) allows to
represent metadata and relationships between various subjects.
There is a basic (content) schema and
ability to extend basic schema.
What I
think is interesting for Topic Maps community is ability in future to leverage
metadata initiatives supported by IBM and Microsoft. I hope that Topic Map
engines will be able to import (may be virtually) metadata from both systems.
Stay tuned for Topic Map Thoughts about some improvements required for TMDM to
support this kind of import.
I am sure
it will be also possible to represent topic maps as "content/metadata provider"
for JSR 170 (and WinFS) based systems.
Posted: Tue - January 27, 2004 at 02:45 PM