XML Authoring/Editing and Content Management Forum Agenda

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XyEnterprise provides organizations of all sizes with content and document management solutions that streamline the information creation and delivery process. XyEnterprise combines its own XML content management, workflow and publishing software with integration services that allow organizations to derive and leverage the inherent value of collaborative creation, management, assembly, and multi-channel distribution of content required in today's dynamic publishing environment.

As more companies strive to architect comprehensive XML content management systems for their organizations, it becomes important to understand to common characteristics of successful designs of these types of systems. There are many vendors that target their products and services at portions of the XML content management architecture such as authoring or web delivery. However, there exist few turnkey solutions that will handle the demands of every project since system priorities vary greatly by company and industry. Consequently, managers face a difficult challenge when designing and implementing a large-scale content management system for their organization.

Dakota's Enterprise Publishing System (DEPS) framework uses a best of breed approach to address the three core areas of XML content management systems. Based on Arbortext\'s Epic Editor, DEPS provides a single interface for authors, editors and reviewers to update re-usable XML components. Additionally, DEPS utilizes a native XML database for managing document components, separating their content and structure from any formatting information to optimize re-use and to facilitate dynamic distribution. Lastly, DEPS distributes documents through multiple channels including high-quality printed pages, wireless devices, electronic web pages and syndication engines via built in XSLT and XSL-FO.

High level overview of the Microsoft Content Management Server

Open Content Architecture Demo

Mark Logic's Open Content Architecture (OCA) demo represents a step forward in the rapid development of integrated content applications. Using the Mark Logic Content Interaction Server as a centralized repository for unstructured and semi-structured corporate data such as documents, reports, and email messages, corporations can now build robust, flexible applications in just weeks. Unlike monolithic content management systems, the Open Content Architecture supports a 'plug and play' model in which content conversion, processing, or visualization tools from any vendor can be quickly integrated into a company's content application.

This sample application demonstrates the power of the OCA approach. It is based on a Mark Logic database containing hundreds of thousands of Enron email messages and closed caption news transcripts from CNN and Fox News. However, the new demo also incorporates technologies from seven separate vendors to form a single integrated research and analysis tool:

Through the OCA demo, users can explore the fascinating archive of Enron e-mail sent during the 1999-2002 period. These person-to-person communications are presented in the context of a variety of supporting data, including mail authors insider trades, Enron's stock price, the level of 'chatter' on various topics over time, and more. Examine the mail habits of individual executives learn who discussed what and who they communicate with most. The demo application can even make a statistical comparison of individual authors to determine if they are the same individual writing under two different e-mail addresses.

Open Content Architecture Model

Open Content Architecture (OCA) is an approach to content management that overcomes the limitations of current solutions. In the OCA model, vendors can hook into a pluggable architecture built around a content database. Rather than building the black box to solve a single point problem, customers select the components most appropriate for them.

OCA is organized around two principles: 1. there must be a persistent content store at the heart of the system, and 2. there are three key steps in content workflow loading content, enriching content that has been loaded, and extracting content. To link these two principles together, the content store of principle one must be standards-compliant in order to interface with the loaders, viewers, or enrichers of principle two.

Practically, the OCA is represented as a content-centric database with hooks. The data loading process may involve simple XML documents, but more often a conversion process occurs as the content flows into the store. The optional enrichment step involves using automated or manual tools to add value to the content. Extraction is a broad collection of different processes ranging from publishing of content in different formats, to quantitative analysis of the content in the data store, to visualization of the content and its metadata in a variety of different ways.

The benefits of Open Content Architecture are numerous. It is open, provides maximum flexibility, allows you to multiply the power of algorithms, speeds initial time to market, allows components to be upgraded, and you can build multiple applications on top of the same content repository.

Moving your organization to Content Management or Electronic Records Management has never been an easy process. The biggest problem isn't the technology - it's your content. The manual method is expensive, time intensive and seriously affects your project schedule.

Deque Undoc for PDF is the first product in Deque's content standards management line. It provides bulk transformation of business content, including automatic transformation of documents in subdirectories into well-structured HTML and XML. Deque's support for XML helps content designers more effectively reuse existing business content with solutions that support variable content printing. Deque Undoc for PDF also provides inline embedded graphics transformation, producing EPS, TIFF, PSD, JPEG, GIF or PNG output from embedded PDF images with user-adjustable interpolated resolution.

Deque Undoc for PDF complements the existing Deque Ramp product line. The Deque Undoc and Ramp product lines are designed to encourage process workflow to streamline efforts at managing content for accessibility. After transforming PDF content to HTML, making them accessible through Deque Ramp Ascend is as easy as accessibility can get.

Organizations often experience significant problems in managing intellectual assets. This is particularly true where content standards rapidly evolve and a surfeit of inexpensive tools exists that create content that doesn't conform.

Deque Worldspace offers content standard services that identify the risks in existing content and reconstruct the content to meet current industry and organizational standards, including XHTML conformance and transformation of PDF to industry standard XML

Deque Worldspace introduces metadata driven asset collections to build, describe and manage your intellectual assets everywhere in your enterprise. Automated governance policies use the collections to test for conformance. As needed, collection elements are automatically remediated to ensure conformance with your practices. With Deque Worldspace, organizations can cut their web maintenance budget in half overnight.

With all the choices available to designers and users today, it's more important than ever to support Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh OS X, Unix and Linux.