Re: Migrating CMS content from one server to another

Hi, Radmilo

There is a generic, plugin-based system for content migration between  
different CMSs called Exorcist.

Currently there are plugins for systems like Midgard CMS, Confluence,  
Miki and EasySiter, but others
are relatively easy to develop. Typical plugin development project  
I've seen our clients do was around
400 EUR. Connectivity to the CMSs happens either using JDBC or JCR,  
or by processing an exported
XML or Excel dump of content.

Currently all plugins are CMS-to-CMS specific, but the plan is to  
also utilize PSILIB as a CMS-agnostic
but somewhat lossy "universal plugin": http://psilib.sourceforge.net/

More information:
http://svn.yukatan.fi/exorcist/

Exorcist in CVS:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/exorcist/exorcist/src/java/net/ 
sf/exorcist/#dirlist

On Aug 15, 2005, at 19:37, Radmilo Kovinjalo wrote:

> I have been working with a specific CMS system for a few years now  
> and one aspect, which hasn't seem to improve is ability to merge  
> one CMS environment into another. Specifically, what has been  
> causing us problems is the CMS content migration part. In their  
> defence, application migration is pretty straightforward with one  
> of their proprietary tools. So I was wondering how/if so, do other  
> CMS systems take care of this?
>

Henri Bergius
Consultant Partner, Nemein
henri.bergius-ZpG/[email protected]

Midgard CMS
www.midgard-project.org