Wednesday, 5/23/2007
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Level: Technical - Intermediate

Content Management Systems (CMS) often come with their own proprietary formats, programming languages, platforms, databases, and protocol compliance. Too often, the most influential factor in deciding what infrastructure to use for a mid to large-size web application is whether or not your CMS supports the features and capabilities you have in mind. For the most part, if your needs include the ability to manage both XML and RDF content, more often than not you will find your CMS does very little to support this. There have been recent developments in standard CMS API's that attempt to abstract the vagaries of persistence, database administration, transport protocol support, and the core organization of an underlying repository. However, these standards do not provide a unified architecture for the persistence, organization, and controlled access to both XML and RDF content. In this session, the speaker will review an existing unified framework - for a CMS and its underlying content repository - which leverages well-established patterns and architectural styles for access control, document management, transport protocol services, content organization, querying, and resource management in such a way that both XML and RDF content can co-exist seamlessly. GRDDL is an emerging technology for automating the extraction of RDF from XML content on the web but also provides a means by which CMSes can automatically manage XML and RDF content in a secure, controlled manner. This session will also discuss the value in such a mechanism for CMSes and the advantages in accommodating both the XML & RDF technological spectrum.

Born in Cleveland, OH, Chimezie is a first-generation son of Nigerian immigrants. He moved (with his family) to Nigeria in 1980 where he was introduced to computers (and software programming) at a young age. Upon returning to the United States in 1990, his interest in Engineering and Computers eventually led him to attain a degree in Computer Engineering. As a software consultant for Fourthought Inc. from 2000 - 2002, his interest in XML-related technologies was established. He currently is working for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation doing XML-related research on Knowledge Management technologies for computerized patient records.