The draft, titled Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) has been submitted to the standards body OASIS for development into a formal standard. The companies backing it so far include Alfresco, EMC (Documentum), IBM (FileNet), Microsoft (Sharepoint), OpenText (eDocs, LiveLink, et al), Oracle (Stellent), and SAP. Notably absent from the list is Interwoven who haven't publically commented on the move.
The standard is not intended to expose all of the content management system's functionality but create a generic set of content management functions that can be accesses through a web service protocol. The list of functions includes:
"* Discovering Object Type definitions and other Repository information including which optional capabilities are supported by a particular Repository
* Creating, Reading, Updating, and Deleting objects
* Filing Documents into zero, one, or more Folders if the repository supports the optional multi-filing capability
* Navigating and traversing the hierarchy of folders in the Repository
* Creating versions of Documents and accessing a Document's version history
* Querying a repository to retrieve one or more objects matching user-specified search criteria, including full-text search queries"
If the standard sees the light of day and gets implemented by the vendors it will provide multiple benefits to law firms, from enabling enterprise search, to allowing better integration between their document management systems and other bespoke applications.
We'll keep you up to date on the development of the standard, but in the meantime everything you could want to know is available here: http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2008-09-10-a.html
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