The conclusion
The CMOS project — Content Management Open Source — concludes after 30 months of industrial research. The consortium formed by Bassilichi S.p.A., the University of Florence and noze delivers the fully Open Source content management platform planned under the MIUR/PIA programme.
The platform
The final platform is a modular, scalable, multi-channel and multi-device content management system built on the Zope/CMF stack. The independent component architecture allows the assembly of customised solutions from a common core.
noze’s contribution
noze’s experience with InFlow CMS — the internally developed content management system — contributes directly to the platform design. Expertise in asynchronous workflows, extensible content types and RDF export represents fundamental elements of the final architecture.
The legacy towards Plone
The experience gained with Zope/CMF during the CMOS project feeds into what becomes Plone — the Open Source CMS that establishes itself as the reference standard for public administration and large organisations. The architectural choices explored in the project — modularity, separation of content and presentation, granular permissions management — are found in subsequent versions of Plone.
The context
CMOS closes a cycle of technology transfer between universities and companies in the Tuscan context, confirming the validity of the collaborative research model funded by MIUR.