CUST-6 Integrating Alfresco with Publishing Tools

Integrating Alfresco with Publishing Tools !

Chris Hudson!

Chris Hudson!

Agenda!•  Problems faced by publishing companies!•  Challenges with standard content management!•  Getting content in!•  Managing content workflows!•  Using content in publishing!•  Reusing content!

•  Ixxus!•  ECM consultant!•  Developed publishing solutions and proof of concepts!

•  Dods!•  OUP!•  Ixxus Publishing Platform!•  Marklogic Publishing Connector!

•  Integrated Alfresco with many external services and programs!

Publishing Challenges!

•  Asset and Rights Management!•  Content Model!•  Aspects!•  Associations!

•  Asset Locatability and Re-use!•  Lucene/Solr intergration!•  Previews!

•  Document Workflows!•  JBPM/Activiti!

•  Asset Versioning and Auditing!•  Version Store!

Challenges Adopting Alfresco !

•  Specialized Tools!•  Editing: Word, InCopy, XForms, …..!•  Layout: InDesign, Quark, …..!•  Image Editing: Photoshop, Illustrator, …..!

•  Separation of Concern!•  Disperse Content!

•  Multiple !•  Departments!•  Locations!•  Networks!

•  Disparate file formats!•  Docx, XML, XMP, INDD, INDT, JPEG, MOV, …..!

•  Changing Business Model!•  Video!•  Web!•  Mashups!

Publishing Platform!

Getting Content into Alfresco!

Heavily Structured

Lightly Structured

•  Schema/ContentControls!•  Ribbons!•  XForms!

•  Alfresco Transformation!•  Extract XML using Styles!•  XSL!•  Apache POI!

Word Ribbon!•  Template.docm!

•  customUI!•  Images!

•  Icon1.png (32x32)!•  Icon2.png!•  ….!

•  _rels!•  .rels.xml.res!

•  customUI.xml!

Managing Content In Alfresco!

Workflows •  Ingestion and Validation!•  Proof reading and approvals!

Collaboration •  Workflow Comments not

necessarily enough!•  Annotations!

Using External Tools With Alfresco!

Integrate •  Use content directly from

Alfresco!•  CIFS/WebDav/FTP!•  CMIS !

•  Adobe Drive!•  Manage content!

•  Call WebScripts!•  Create previews !

Adobe Extended Script!Startup Script

•  #targetengine "IxxusSession“!•  var commonObject!

Extendables

•  Easy HTTP!

•  Easy Dialog!

Caution, some script functions not working E.g link.checkIn();!

Reusing Published Content!XML Database

•  Separation of editing and distribution!•  Publish from Alfresco!

•  When content and edits approved!•  When content changes!•  When content is requested !

•  Exceptionally fast transformation and search!

•  Create externally facing services!

•  Store and integrate content from other systems!

Questions?!