Red Hat on Versioning Structured Content

Yesterday I attended a talk [1] on versioning structured content, by Rafael 
Schloming of Red Hat at the OSCOM3 conference in Cambridge.

The material is absolutely relevant, and perhaps instructive, to our current 
work in the Dspace History system.  Rafael's presentation materials are 
available [2].

- Mick


Versioning Structured Content in a Content Management Application

	"The CCM persistence layer is the foundation for the high-level 
content services provided by CCM. This talk will address some of the unique 
challenges involved in building a persistence layer that supports the basic 
features necessary to implement high-level content-centered services such as 
robust versioning, workflow, and user-defined data structures. One of the 
unique features of the CCM versioning system is that it supports the 
versioning of structured content rather than the text-based versioning found 
in most versioning systems. This includes not only versioning the attributes 
of a content item independently but also versioning associations between 
content items. The result is a versioning system that is capable of correctly 
versioning anything from the title of an individual item to an entire network 
of related content items. 

[1] Abstract
http://oscom.org/Conferences/Cambridge/Proposals/schloming_structured_content_v
ersioning.html

[2] Presentation Materials
http://slideml.bitflux.ch/files/slidesets/491/title.html


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Received on Friday, 30 May 2003 09:38:44 UTC