Sharing data to become easier
Swapping information across content management repositories may become easier in the years to come, thanks to a newly released set of specifications authored by a legion of content management system vendors, including IBM, Microsoft, Alfresco, Open Text, Oracle, SAP and EMC.
The specification, called Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS), establishes how content management systems (CMSs) can use a set of Web services interfaces, as well as the REST and Atom protocols to link with other repositories. The vendors announced that it plans to submit the specs to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), the standards body that oversees many Web services standards today.