[Fwd: Call for Papers -- Content Management Systems]

The deadline for abstracts has been extended to 21 March.

Thanks,

Brad Kain

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Subject: Call for Papers -- Content Management Systems
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:22:53 -0500
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CALL FOR PAPERS
*Cutter IT Journal*
Brad Kain, Guest Editor

Content Management Systems -- The Next Decade

Content management -- how to acquire, store, maintain, and use
content -- continues to be a vibrant technology sector. The past 10
years has seen tremendous change in the products and underlying
technology that provide content management systems, or CMS. The
number of software products that can, sometimes loosely, be counted
as CMS rose dramatically. Even after recent consolidation in this
market there are perhaps more than 200 products that support the core
functions of a CMS. XML and its related standards has become the
common technology for managing content. Yet this sector continues
to engage the energies of leading software companies and the open
source communities around the world. How will CMS tools and
technologies change in the next 10 years?

Content management is at a crossroad, with a range of market and
technology forces at work that will alter this sector. A fundamental
question is one of definition. A wide range of applications comprise
content management, including record and document management,
search, online and print publishing, knowledge management, and
other disciplines. Which application areas will continue to define
content management? Which vendors will dominate? Will open
source solutions emerge as viable solutions for corporate IT?

THE *CUTTER IT JOURNAL* INVITES USEFUL DEBATE
AND ANALYSES on the state of content management systems.
Authors are encouraged to promote and defend their opinions,
with high-quality answers to the questions surrounding this
evolving technology.

TOPICS OF INTEREST MAY INCLUDE (but are certainly not
limited to) a combination of the following:

-- Content management has its roots in document management,
    publishing, knowledge management, and other disciplines. What
    are the essential features and functions of a CMS? In other
    words, what is and is not a CMS?

-- Does "Enterprise Content Management" provide a useful
    categorization of content management tools and technologies,
    or is it vendor-driven hyperbole?

-- What are the emerging technologies that will dramatically improve
    the capability of end users to actually use the content in a CMS?
    Will products that use taxonomies, categorization, semantic
    analysis, indexing and search, or other technologies be the next
    "killer app"?

-- In 10 years, will CMS functions be intrinsic to operating and files
    systems, database servers, application servers, or other major
    IT systems?

-- Industry experience has shown that content migration and
    acquisition is the most expensive and time-consuming activity
    for a CMS deployment. How can a CMS improve content migration
    and acquisition? (Award zero points for any response that
    includes "rekeying.")

-- Content management -- in particular, the persistence of structured
    content -- has two divergent approaches. In one approach, content is
    managed as XML documents with controlling document types or XML
    schemata. Other products use a database to store and manage the
    content in a CMS. Which approach will emerge as the dominant
    persistence model for CMS?

-- Will the power and robustness of open source CMS enable a few
    heavyweights to stand toe-to-toe with EMC, Oracle, IBM, and the
    other bruisers? Or will the regulatory requirements of many sectors
    (e.g., Sarbanes-Oxley) force corporate IT to stick with the defending,
    but overweight champions?

TO SUBMIT AN ARTICLE IDEA
Please send an article outline/abstract to Guest Editor Brad Kain
([email protected]), with a copy to [email protected], by
March 14, 2005.

ARTICLE DEADLINE
Articles are due on April 15, 2005.

EDITORIAL GUIDELINES
Most *Cutter IT Journal* articles are approximately 2,500-3,500
words long, plus whatever graphics are appropriate. If you have any
other questions, please do not hesitate to contact *CITJ’s* managing
editorKaren Pasley ([email protected]) or Guest Editor Brad Kain
([email protected]). Editorial guidelines are available at
http://www.cutter.com/itjournal/edguide.html.

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