Community-Originated Content

Overview

The CMF is aimed at content-oriented sites, much or all of which content is created and maintained by the members of the portal community. In order to make such content discoverable and useful to the community, the portal needs to collect a common core of metadata; the CMF uses the Dublin Core spec as the foundation for cataloguing and syndicating its content.

Key Interfaces

• DublinCore Metadata
• Catalogable DublinCore Metadata
• Mutable DublinCore Metadata

Portal Interface Relationships

Tools for Building Community

Overview

A Portal is a site for managing a community's member-driven content. The portal's services are exposed to the members, and to the content objects they create, in the form of a set of "portal tools".

Each tool has a well-known name (e.g., portal_membership, portal_workflow, and should be unique within the portal. Each tool is required to implement a specified interface; content or code which needs the services of the tool should access those services only through its interface.

These interfaces define "plug points" at which the portal manager is free to substitute alternate tool implementations, piecemeal. For instance, a manager can start with a "stock" portal, and customize only the workflow by replacing the default portal_workflow tool with another which implements her site's workflow policies.

Existing Tools

Tool Relationships