The CMSML Project
Introduction
There are nearly 2,000 Content Management Systems currently listed on over two dozen CMS online directories around the world.
Reference articles:
We collected a master list of these Content Management Systems in a spreadsheet, with data from 28 CM Systems Directories Worldwide (Excel). CMS Review maintains a listing of known CMS directories, some with feature comparators.
CMS Consultants are challenged to select the right CMS for a particular content management application from among this vast number of choices. CMSML is a tool to help build evaluation systems.
CMSML Project
CMSML is a markup language for describing and classifying content management systems. The markup language will be based on a '
feature list' or critical set of attributes (facets) needed to describe a CMS.
The goal is to compile a comprehensive list of content management systems, classify them according to the feature set in CMSML, and then provide comparisons between CMS for purposes of evaluation.
Individual CMS Consultants can partner with
CMS Review,
OSCOM, and the
University of Washington iSchool on this project.
The CMSML project is in the hands of the CMSML community.
Bob Doyle made a lengthy combined list of CMS Features from three market overviews (CMS Review, Hartman Communicatie, and CMS Matrix) in a spreadsheet (Excel).
The main goal of the CMSML Project is to provide a comprehensive list of content management systems, classify them according to the feature set in CMSML, and then provide comparisons between CMS for purposes of evaluation. In the future we hope to test content management systems in a worldwide network of independent labs.
CMS Review provides a model of a Faceted CMS Directory and CMS Feature Comparator that's based on this classification.
In November 2004, Erik Hartman of Hartman Communicatie in the Netherlands took the lead in the development of CMSML, with financial assistance from the Dutch Government. In 2006 Hartman became President of CM Professionals and hoped to make CMSML into a CM Pros project, but this did not happen. Erik wrote an article on CMSML (.pdf) for the Rockley Report.
His article was based on the Gilbane Report on Classification and Evaluation of Content Management Systems.
More info on the history of CMSML is to be found on the CMSML website.
