Dynamic Content Generation

SharePoint plays a very unique role in Enterprise Content Management. It is neither your traditional definition of ECM nor is it not. At a recent Laserfiche Analysts, Consultants, & Experts (ACE) Q&A Panel at Empower 2010, a Gartner and an IDC analyst both described SharePoint as an interesting platform that indeed has value proposition; but not necessarily all the same as when people think about ECM today. If anything, I believe SharePoint brings another dimension of value proposition to ECM. Rather than looking at how SharePoint fits in the traditional definition of ECM, it is more likely that ECM will be redefined.

So before considering whether that helps or hinders the ECM landscape; first understand that SharePoint significantly changed the landscape. Good changes, too, I might add. Records Management propels into the limelight, image and capture tools become more important than ever, and ECM becomes an infrastructure play.

Not a question I like, because if you accept the notion that SharePoint really isn’t traditional ECM then I believe the focus should be on what value does a solution that encompasses SharePoint and content management technology provides. Nonetheless, a good description of SharePoint I hear often is that it is a very thin and long horizontal piece that leaves a lot of white space for depth. SharePoint 2007 provides a very good set of rudimentary ECM capabilities such as document collaboration and basic web content management. It is easy for user to adopt, and does a chunk of document management.

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Google’s “Living Stories” was revealed last year in October by a post on the Official Google Blog. The google lab experiment aims to create a single page where readers can follow one story in the news, tracking new developments as they occur and are reported.

At the time, Google announced that it hoped to make the tool available to publishers outside of their initial test in Google Labs. Last week, this aim was realised, with the company announcing that the Living Stories tool is now open source – inviting all web developers to use their code to build their own pages with the new feature.

A ‘living story’ will feature a single web page with several standard features, continuously updated as more information comes in. Each page will begin with a summary at the top of the page, rewritten to reflect updates and to highlight the most important information. There will also be a running catalogue of information related to the story, ordered chronologically with precedence given to the latest information. A time line displayed on each page will provide an instant snapshot of the story’s most important developments.

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The policy, announced by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy in December last year , will block URLs that received a Refused Content classification by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).

University of Sydney associate professor Bjorn Landfeldt, said the filter was ineffective and could negatively impact the National Broadband Network (NBN).

“Proposed amendments the Broadcasting Services Act to introduce compulsory filtering is unlikely to exclude much of the unwanted content,” he said. “It is inapplicable to many of the current methods of online content distribution and has the potential to restrict Internet bandwidth.” Computer Research and Education Association (CORE), which represents Australasian computer science lecturers and professors, publicised its opposition to Internet content filtering at its recent annual general meeting.

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