Roundtables

At cmf2005 we will hold a few informal roundtables with discussions on selected topics. Please feel free to submit a suggestion for a roundtable to the address below.

The roundtables will be held Wednesday, November 9th at 17.30 at the Scandinavian Congress Centre.

Roundtable #1 Blogging

Description will come soon.

Roundtable #2
Classifying and Selecting a Content Management System

Erik Hartman facilitates an interactive discussion about the process of selecting a CMS and the tools CM Professionals could offer to assist members during this selection process. CMSML and several related online product overviews will be discussed. CMSML is a markup language for describing and classifying content management systems. CMSML started as an outgrowth of a collaboration between OSCOM, the University of Washington iSchool's CMS Evaluation Lab, CMS Review, and Hartman Communicatie. Now it is a CM Professionals project, in which the schema needs to be further improved and expanded with more facets and heuristics. More info on www.cmsml.org.

Several CM Pros members already supported this CMSML initiative, e.g. James Robertson, Bob Doyle, Frank Gilbane, Bob Boiko, Magan Arthur, Tony Byrne, John Newton, Janus Boye, Geert Jan van Bussel and Richard McCarthy. This roundtable needs to focus on some facets e.g. usability, security. At the end of the discussion we have made a decision about the tools we will provide for CM Pros members, the CMSML facets we focus on for 2005/2006, and perhaps we have a plan of attack for an international online CM Pros overview of ECM systems.

The audience is everyone involved in an enterprise content management tool selection or who is interested in describing and classifying enterprise content management systems. The topic is a bit technical, but we explicitly welcome 'non-technical' people to join the discussion because we want to provide CM Pros tools that are suited for end-users and business people. We can't do this without your support!

Roundtable #3 Reporting

Description will come soon.