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Overview. Web portals websites offering a broad array of resources and services e-mail forums search engines starting point to other resources on the Internet or an intranet provision of personalized capabilities collaboration tool
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Overview • Web portals • websites offering a broad array of resources and services • e-mail • forums • search engines • starting point to other resources on the Internet or an intranet • provision of personalized capabilities • collaboration tool • integration of functions and datafrom multiple systems
Overview -continued • Content Management System (CMS) • used to organize and facilitate collaborative content creation • manage the structure of a website • advantages • decentralized authoring • workflow capabilities • greater consistency • increased security • decreased level of technical knowledge required
Plone • CMS built on top of the Zope web application server • Does not require Zope technical knowledge • Python can be used to add new features to Plone • Stores its contents in • Zope's built in transactional object database (default) • relational databases • filesystem
PostNuke • CMS written in PHP • Management does not require programming skills • Functionality can be extended by adding modules • Stores contents in • MySQL (default) • filesystem
EWPublisher • Built and supported by the EEA • Python product for Zope which constructs generic portals • Does not require technical skills • WYSIWYG HTML editor • Easy to extend functionality • supports modules written in other programming languages • Data storage • uses ZODB, RDBMS, filesystem
Considerations on EWPublisher • User rights – extended range of customization • Easy to integrate products which were not designed specifically for EWPublisher • Topic-oriented, as opposed to user-oriented • Easier to configure and to extend • Context • built and supported by the EEA • technical support from Finsiel Romania