CMS Review is a new resources website for those trying to select the
right CMS. We hope it will be valuable to new members of this list, and
to veterans as a place to point the newcomers. It's where you can find
articles, books, research reports, magazines, seminars, trade shows,
weblogs, and lots more great CMS websites.
CMS Review has a database of vendor-editable feature descriptions that
enables Search for a CMS with particular properties (like operating
system, middleware framework, programming language, license), a powerful
side-by-side CMS Feature Comparator, and a faceted CMS Directory..
All these functions are available as code snippets[2] to paste into any
CMS-related site. A data feed web service will provide Search,
Comparison, and Directory services to the site's visitors. They are like
news feeds, but not so ephemeral as today's headlines, so we are calling
them "knowledge feeds."
There is no charge for this service. The data is licensed under a
Creative Commons license[3]. The hope is that if the knowledge feeds are
used widely in the CMS community, vendors will then be pressured to
maintain their data themselves. With hundreds of CMS and hundreds of
features, this work is beyond any single website editorial team. If we
collaborate, all our CMS websites can provide this valuable service to
their visitors.
The Search and Feature Comparator are now playing on Content-Wire.com[4]
and cmsInfo[5], the faceted Directory at CMS Review and at OSCOM[6].
Note that each website has easily styled the feeds with a CSS to match
local colors and fonts[2].
The current database set is small (about 50 open-source CMS and 25
proprietary CMS, only the first 30 of some 125 features, and many
products have no data at all entered). It is initially biased toward
open-source CMS because of our work with the OSCOM conference coming to
Harvard May 28.
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