Late breaking news: It turns out that the current CMIS download on ECN Labs is already 1.0 compliant, so there won’t be another release in May. Also, the ECN Labs downloads are for preview purposes only.  As stated below, official product support for CMIS will be in the Documentum 6.7 release.

Read the full story at the EMC blog

This includes:

• CMIS Query
• Web Services Binding
• REST Binding
• Access Control Lists
• Change Logs
• Renditions
• CMIS Test Compatibility Kit
• Plus Alfresco extension for Aspect query and property get/set operations

Check the release notes for further details.

This release includes:
- CMIS 1.0 support
- Multiple repositories support
- CMIS repository switcher block
- CMIS common library client implementation (vendor specifc modules are no longer required. cmis_alfresco is deprecated)
- Synchronization with binary files support
- Flexible synchronization rules
- Folder picker for CMIS browser navigation

Major changes:
- cmis_alfresco module is deprecated
- All admin screens have been removed. Will be addressed in feature releases
- API suffered major changes, in order to match CMIS 1.0 specs
- CMIS document view block has been dropped. Will be addressed in feature releases

Changes from RC2
- Added cmis_sync more complex config sample to README.txt
- Added support for json response to cmis_query view
- Fixed cmis_browser actions for path containing white spaces
- Fixed cmis_folderId sync setting

Changes from RC1
- Fixed cmis_sync filefield support

Click here to download the Drupal CMIS API.

Watch the following four videos if you are interested in:

• Introduction to Poster and Firefox CMIS plugin client
• Serice URL discussion
• Object (and content) creation / deletion
• Versioning and Filing
• Query
• Other collections

Introduction Video
Duration: 2:59 min

CMIS Poster Lab Part 1
Duration: 09:02 min

CMIS Poster Lab part 2 – object creation
Duration: 10:00 min

CMIS Poster Lab Part 3 – content creation and deletion
Duration: 08:18 min

ARITHNEA just released a new module for the High-End Content Management System FirstSpirit ™ called DMS connect.

DMS connect uses CMIS to connect to different Document Management Systems. The module successfully works with Sharepoint 2010 and Alfresco 3.2. Not all CMIS features have been implemented yet. Within the next weeks it will also be tested against the Nuxeo repository that already offers CMIS. The module is meant to work with all CMIS compliant DMS. This will be tested as soon those repositories are available.

This images shows an editor mask within the web content management.

It is possible to connect to more than one repository with this module. The editors can choose which repository they want to access (red section). This can be easily switched through a drop-down list.

With this module the online editors have direct access to the DMS. They can directly choose the files they want to publish to the website. There is no need anymore to copy documents to the internal media store. This way the document management process stays within the DMS and the editorial process stays in the CMS. This makes web publishing with documents much more efficient.

The module will be presented for the first time at CeBIT in Hannover.

You can see the module in action at h all 6, stand J36.

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The following highlights are available in V1.0:

• Asset Capture /Batch Import:
• Annotations:
• Intellectual Property and Rights Management:
• Renditions
• Filter-based Navigation
• Watermarking & Export of Media Files
• Security & Access Control
• Configurable Content Model
• Fully Browser- and Web-based
• Deep Integration Across IT Ecosystem

For details please refer to the Nuxeo article.

Within this document they explain how the CMIS demo was planned and accomplished. The concept was to create a federated search interface that would allow users to search multiple repositories from a single search screen. Several vendors showed interest in assisting the iECM committee and participated on the initial planning calls. At the End Nuxeo, EMC and Alfresco commited themselves to participate to make their repositories CMIS mostly compliant for this demo. This demo has been presented at the AIIM Expo 2009.

This year it is planned to show two CMIS scenarios.
The Federated Repository and the Application to Repository scenario.

Therefore they need additional support to make it again a success.

If you are interested in participating in the 2010 iECM CMIS demo project, please contact Thomas Pole (pole at harris dot com). If you wish to participate as a vendor, please contact Betsy Fanning (bfanning at aiim dot org). Many skills and resources are needed, including:

• Testers
• Content classifiers
• Software developers
• Coordinators to help keep the team productive, including working with the vendors
• Vendors
• Healthcare professionals to act as Subject Matter Experts (SME)

The mentioned document can be downloaded here. Check the following blog article to get more details.

Highlights of this integration:

• Integration with Microsoft Office based on Alfresco’s implementation of Microsoft Sharepoint protocol
• Alfresco adds Full Records Management features
• Cloud-computing deployment

Watch the following video to see the integration in action

It’s a fact that most large organizations have multiple ECM standards. Watch this webcast to find out all about Alfresco and Content Management Interoperability Services.  Gabriele Columbro sets the scene and looks at the CMIS data model, CMIS services, queries and how the CMIS Maven Toolkit jump starts your application build. Includes a demo of the Alfresco CMIS 1.0cd04 repository.