RE: ASP dot Net CMS

Even further E-GIF is a catalogue of various standards for IT in public
sector that the government has approved. Other relevant topics for websites
and content management in addition to the ones Angus mentioned are: -

- Accessibility 
- Security
- Data protection

The good news for vendors with all this E-GIF stuff is, as Angus mentioned,
that it is all based on around open / well established IT standards, which
means that the vendor should comply if they have followed what is going on
in the IT world wide developing their software. Saying that, I have been
just trying to help out a local government organisation which has locked
themselves with one of the major software vendors and now have great
difficulties to make their portal accessible, because the vendor's product
produces HTML from year 1990... 

The government is currently in process rolling out an E-GIF accreditation
schema in intention to clear the situation a little and enable products /
vendors qualify to be "E-GIF" approved. More details can be found at
http://www.ncc.co.uk/egif.cfm. However, there is currently an issue that the
accreditation is quite expensive process and it is discriminating small
companies and therefore has not really taken of so far.

Regards,

Olli



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Angus Phillipson
Sent: 23 February 2005 19:56
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [CMS] ASP dot Net CMS

Hi All,

E-GIF also covers categorisations like the EGCL - the eGovernment
Category List, which is not a technology issue at all.

E-GIF is about interoperability based on common standards (XML and XSL)
and common terminology (the eGMS meta data), be that passing data from a
to b in a common format, or classifying data within centrally managed
taxonomy - so when I move from one council to another they use the same
terminology for services, for example.

These standards (XML, XSL and structured meta data), by there very
nature, transcend technology.  In fact, that is most of there raison
d'etre.

The idea being that .NET system might 'talk' via XML (transformed by
XSL) to a J2EE system (or any other technology).  So, in the case of a
missing person your local council legacy system might pass personal
information on to a number of police and hospital systems, built in
different technologies, in a way that they all understand. The LGOL
project was designed to serve as a conduit for this messaging.

The idea that e-GIF lends itself to the .NET framework, flies in the
face of the fact that it is there to promote data interoperability in a
diverse technological landscape.
 
Kind regards

Angus  

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick de Voil
Sent: 23 February 2005 18:40
To: Paul Duthoit; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CMS] ASP dot Net CMS

Paul

> XML Schemas in principal. I stress I am not a developer but 
> responsible
for
> business development and project initiation. A number public sector 
> bodies are 'inclined to .Net/MS' for this and other reasons - often 
> through lack
of
> knowledge.

As I understand it, under the e-GIF, there are three areas where XML
Schemas are important:

- metadata schemas (eGMS, Dublin Core)

- presentation schemas (XHTML etc)

- the harder-to-define area of "data integration" where data is to be
passed "between systems". In my experience of web content management
projects, people tend to overlook this one altogether, believing that
it's irrelevant, and this can be a mistake.

But I can't imagine why anyone would consider any of these three to be
particularly the province of .NET as opposed to, for example, J2EE.

Regards

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