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HyperContent 2.0: A Powerful Web Management Platform for Higher Education

HyperContent is a stable and scalable Java web application designed for managing websites in a distributed environment. It offers features like easy editing and publishing, XML and HTML storage, file revision history, granular permissions, approvals and schedules, and automated navigation and site maps. It is an open-source project sponsored by JA-SIG, implemented by multiple universities, and currently used on over 50 websites.

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HyperContent 2.0: A Powerful Web Management Platform for Higher Education

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  1. HyperContent 2.0 JA-SIG Winter Conference December 5, 2005 Alex Vigdor, Columbia University

  2. What is HyperContent? • A platform for managing web sites in a distributed environment • A stable, scalable Java web application • A solution designed by and for Higher Education • Truly open source (MIT License) • A JA-SIG sponsored project

  3. Key Features • Edit and publish sites from a web browser • Store XML and publish XML, HTML or PDF • Keep a history of file revisions • Enforce granular permissions • Set up approvals, notifications and schedules • Publish locally, over NFS, FTP or SFTP • Automatically generate navigation and site maps

  4. A little background • Under continuous development since May 2002 at Columbia University • In production at Columbia since early 2003 • Sponsored by the JA-SIG since March 2004 • Implemented by 6+ other schools • Over 50 web sites currently published with v1.4 • v1.x implemented as a uPortal channel • Version 2.0 is a standalone web application with integrated web server, workflow engine, and cluster-capable batch processing

  5. Business model • Columbia has a web production group offering • project management • information architecture • graphic design • site implementation • training & support • Content experts author and publish their own sites • 5 central FTEs service dozens of departments • the eServices Integration group at the University of Hull offers a similar centralized web production service using HyperContent

  6. 2.0 Production Statistics November 2005 • 165,557 unique page views • 906 logins • 33 users • 12 active web sites • 5 restarts for bug fixes, 0 crashes • 311 batches published 28,040 items

  7. Content Authoring tools • WYSIWYG HTML & XML editing • Image convert, crop and resize • Drag & drop navigation and site map management • Dublin Core metadata • vCard contact information w/LDAP lookup • Multilingual spell checker • Upload & download arbitrary file types • Plain text editing for any text file type

  8. Architecture: Foundation • Repository API with versioning, locking, searching and metadata support • implementations include local, FTP & SFTP • Asynchronous processing engine • automatically distributes batch rendering and publishing jobs across server clusters • Event-driven workflow engine • Flexible XML scripts configure events, schedules, work queues, and sequences of commands that may send e-mails, trigger batch jobs, move work between queues, or execute any custom plug-in • Event & handler model supports loose coupling with other systems

  9. Architecture: Web Content • Extensible rendering pipeline configuration • filters for XML Includes, XSL transforms, Velocity templates, image resizing and watermarking, and more • persistent caching maximizes performance • recursive dependency analysis guarantees content freshness • Integrated HTTP 1.1 server • tuned for dynamic content management • HTML form input binding • bind individual inputs to specific processors • processors can expire inputs to prevent re-submission

  10. Architecture: Enterprise • Pluggable authentication • Uses JAAS LoginModules • Comes with JA-SIG CAS client • LDAP support • Grab display name, notification e-mail address • Manage contact info and directories on web sites • External web and file server support • Use network mounted drives, FTP or SFTP • uPortal support • Feed XML or XHTML to uPortal, use single sign-on for transparent security

  11. Roadmap • HyperContent 2.0 went final on December 2 • Upcoming development priorities include • Next-generation XML/HTML WYSIWYG editor • WSRP and UDDI portlet publishing • Integration with JA-SIG Groups & Permissions • JSR-170 repository support • WebDAV support

  12. Web site screenshots

  13. Live Demo / Q&A

  14. For more information Visit http://hypercontent.sourceforge.net contact Alex Vigdor av317@columbia.edu HyperContent Architect & Project Manager

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