1. From Static to Dynamic: Choosing and Implementing a CMS Ruth Kneale, rkneale@nso.edu National Solar Observatory, Advanced Technology Solar Telescope

2. What’s a CMS anyway? CMS = Content Management System Used to collaboratively and interactively create, manage, control, and publish information Known by many other terms PDM or EDMS, like DocuShare Web CMS, like Drupal Wiki We need a web CMS

3. Why do we want one? To avoid any more of the “single point syndrome” To enable: Ease of administration Increased team collaboration Increased functionality Improved presentation for the web site

4. Our Basic Starting Point Open Source = $0 cost LAMP Setup

5. Must Haves Audit trail Content approval WYSIWYG editor Granular privileges Friendly URLs Versioning Content reuse CGI support

6. Should Haves Sandbox/staging area Online administration Inline administration Mass uploading Site map/index

7. Nice to Have Contact management Drag-n-drop Photo gallery Events calendar Web statistics

8. To CMS or to Wiki? That is the question Both are strong possibilities How to determine? Experience of others (listservs, etc) Cmsmatrix.org and wikimatrix.org Opensourcecms.com Experts-Exchange.com Local evaluation

9. Initial Search Results WebCMS’s: Lenya Drupal e107 eTouch ExpressionEngine Joomla! Plone WebGUI Xoops Wiki’s: Giki KeheiWiki MediaWiki MoniWiki PHPwiki PmWiki PukiWiki SnipSnap TWiki

11. The Weeding Begins Exclusions based on: Too many missing functionalities Hidden fees Currency of support Required database underpinnings Reports of others on ease of installation Reports of others on ease of use Short evaluation on opensourcecms

12. The Final Four DrupalTWiki WebGUIMediaWiki These were installed and tested locally.

13. Drupal: Adding Content

14. WebGUI: Adding Content

15. TWiki: Adding Content

16. MediaWiki: Adding Content

17. Local Testing Small group of local users made up of staff who would also be final users of the product Created, edited content Provided feedback

18. General Thoughts Wanted familiar look-and-feel Wanted terminology changed Liked the CMSs “More like Word” Disliked the wikis “Too much work”

19. The Winner Is…

20. Next Steps Expanding functionality Ingesting existing site Training staff on use Going live on new server by 2008

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