Craig’s Musings

This week has seen REST experts Roy Fielding and Sam Ruby comment on CMIS. As someone directly involved in CMIS, I wanted to acknowledge both Roy’s remarks and Sam’s remarks, which follow onto Roy’s.
The standards effort based in OASIS that is CMIS is indeed just getting started, as Sam notes. There is a lot of [...]

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I apologize for the short notice, but I will be presenting a webinar on Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) this Thursday. Registration is still open: http://www.emc.com/events/2008/q3/09-18-08-cmis-launch.htm. I hope that you can not only listen to the presentation but also participate actively in the Q&A portion.
If you cannot participate but are still interested in CMIS, I [...]

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I am excited to (finally) say that EMC, IBM and Microsoft have announced the creation of a jointly developed interface specification called Content Management Interoperability Services, or CMIS. This is important news for the industry as CMIS uses web services to provide greater interoperability across multiple Enterprise Content Management (ECM) repositories.
The current draft specification will [...]

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Today Tim Bray reported that Atom is done. This is good news for the Web, and this is an important opportunity for ECM vendors.
I appreciate it when those involved in a standard take the time to share a concise vision for why the standard matters. According to Tim Bray, Atom’s raison d’être is “Publish” Everywhere. (Or, [...]

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Mark Masterson joins in the ECM standards conversation. I enjoyed his remark that the conversation to date has been entirely enabled via standards.
I agree with Mark that, unfortunately, a fair bit of discussion around standards–ECM-related or otherwise–tends to pit apples against oranges (e.g. approach vs. implementation, architecture vs. approach, orientation vs. …, etc.).
Concerning [...]

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