The project
The CMOS project — Content Management Open Source — kicks off as an industrial research initiative involving Bassilichi S.p.A. and the University of Florence together with noze. The project is funded by MIUR (Ministry of Education, University and Research) under the PIA (Integrated Facilitation Packages) programme.
Objectives
The planned duration is 30 months. The main objective is the development of a content management platform that is entirely Open Source, with specific characteristics:
- Modularity: architecture based on independent components, assemblable according to project needs
- Scalability: ability to handle growing volumes of content and users
- Multi-channel: publication on different channels (web, mobile, print) from a single content base
- Multi-device: automatic adaptation to consumption devices
noze’s contribution
noze brings to the consortium the experience gained with InFlow CMS and the Zope/CMF stack. Expertise in asynchronous workflows, extensible content types and RDF export represents the technological foundation on which to build the research.
The CMOS project fits into a moment of growing institutional attention towards Open Source, with MIUR explicitly funding research on open platforms. The collaboration between companies and universities reflects a model of technology transfer that characterises the Tuscan ecosystem.