Open Source Nuxeo EP and DM 5.3 Support OpenSocial

By Irina Guseva (@irina_guseva) Oct 19, 2009

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Open Source Nuxeo DM 5.3 Supports OpenSocial Nuxeo (news, site) included several new features in the latest release of Nuxeo Document Management. Nuxeo DM 5.3 highlights include support for the OpenSocial API, a new tagging service, SharePoint integration support and interoperability with CMIS as an add-on component.

On top of that, Nuxeo EP 5.3, the vendor's enterprise content management system core, reached the RC stage.

Nuxeo DM 5.3

Nuxeo DM is a (free under standard LGPL) document management product that goes on top of the core Nuxeo EP. The last time we looked at Nuxeo DM, they took it to the cloud, leveraging Amazon Web Services.

This time around, Nuxeo concentrated on the increasingly popular social applications support and a few other things that many DM users may find helpful and welcome.

Social Gadgets

Using Nuxeo’s support for OpenSocial — a common API for social apps access across various websites — users can add and/or build social networking gadgets, for example.

The gadgets are, essentially, mashups of web and enterprise applications. The Nuxeo DM repository is where the gadgets are centrally stored.

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Adding Social Gadgets in Nuxeo DM 5.3

Nuxeo DM 5.3 serves as both the publisher of gadgets and the OpenSocial container. Just for comparison, other known OpenSocial containers include MySpace, Ning, LinkedIn, iGoogle and many others.

CrownPeak, a SaaS Web CMS vendor, also did an OpenSocial integration back in early 2008.

Windows SharePoint Services Support

Who doesn’t want a MOSS connector? Microsoft SharePoint can be accessed from Nuxeo DM 5.3 for basic library services and common file operations. For those die-hard fans of Windows Explorer, there’s a native integration, so they may not even know they’re working with another document management system.

There’s also a Microsoft Office integration that allows opening, saving, editing of files directly to/from Nuxeo DM.

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Previewing MS Word Document in Nuxeo DM 5.3

Check out a webcast on this integration here.

Federated Publishing

DM 5.3 is friendlier with distributed information architectures compared to previous versions. In 5.3, there’s more of a central control over publishing content to remote Nuxeo applications, file systems, HTTP servers, web portals, etc. That’s what the new Publishing Service is equipped to do.

Tagging Services

It was about time Nuxeo put more effort into tagging and metadata capabilities of their DM system. The new tagging service is fairly easy to use and allows users to categorize content by applying existing or adding new tags. Tagging can then result in more ways for retrieval and display of content stored in Nuxeo DM.