Ximdex is an open source content management system (CMS) that allows for the management of content, data, and applications in a distributed environment. It provides tools for the acquisition, management, transformation and syndication of content to different formats and channels while keeping content fully separate from presentation and business logic layers. The system uses semantic technologies like XML, RDF, and ontologies to add meaning to content and allow automatic transformation and publishing to different formats. Key features include visual XML editing, automatic portal generation, cloud-based publishing, and modules for semantic annotations, tagging, data management, search, and security. Ximdex values flexibility, security and scalability to help customers adapt to new technologies and scale to large repositories.
2. OpenXimdexEvolution
Developers of Ximdex, an open source & semantic web powered
Web Content* Management System (CMS/WCM/ECM) …
docs & data & web apps
SEVILLA
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3. Working with content
Huge diversity of contents* (doc/data/web app)
Millions of documents, from diverse formats and sources
Multiple languages, multiple final formats
Complex structuration and sorting
Multidimensional navigation space
Already working contents and services
“document recycling”! design and style adaptation!
“business logic recycling” ! limits to integration!
Dynamic information elements
Rigid and intrusive architectures ! “bottlenecks”
Personalization control and profiling
Annotation, meta-info management, …
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4. … and with CMS’s
Content Management
Systems (CMSs) already
guarantee full separation
between presentation and
content ...
… but DO NOT offer a full separation between
content and business logic.
Very high
technological
dependance!
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Low
interoperability!
CMS’s are highly
intrusive!
5. Information enhancement …
It does not represent information meaning.
Only design and presentation!
2004
2002
2000
Normal Web (considering 2.0)
2006
i.e.: <p class=“bold”> Price: 240 Eur</p>
2012
2010
2008
Semantic Web
“The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which
information is given a well-defined meaning, better enabling
computers and people to work in cooperation”
Tim Berners-Lee et al, “The Semantic Web” (2001)
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6. Towards the semantic web …
~1993: Document level
— gopher, archie
~1994: Text level
— Web (html, url, …)
~2012: Data level
– Semantic web (RDFa, sparql, …)
! Linked Open Data
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8. Semantic technologies
Semantic Web
It associates a precise and shared meaning to
the elements of information. Therefore
modeled information can be used by persons,
tools and systems.
Semantic
Structure
Sintax
(meaning)
(organization)
(communication)
RDF+ontologies
XML
RDF (Resource Description Framework) allows to describe
relationships between “elements of information”.
Ontologies provide a shared vocabulary (OWL).
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Modelling
allows making
inferences!
9. Information management with Ximdex
XIMDEX
Structured documents + meaning + metadata
Full access to information elements
Free definition and use of XML schemes
Use of standards (XML, XSLT, RNG)
abstraction
open
access
+
free
structure
meaning
With Ximdex CMS, content, data and apps
become fully independent from CMS
technology!
Independant selection of architecture, exploitation
platforms (java, ruby, php, .net), application servers,
connectors to systems, etc.
scalable!
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neutral!
interoperable!
10. What is Ximdex CMS?
A distributed environment for the management of contents, data, applications and services.
It conveys them to different final formats (WEB, smart TV, smartphones, ...) in multiple technologies
(J2EE, PHP, .NET, XML, JSON, XHTML, HTML5, …) even simultaneously.
Acquisition, management, transformation and syndication of:
– contents, data and services
(web, smartphones, DVB, smart TVs, ...)
– exploitation elements
(java, php, RoR, json, jquery, html, django, ...)
Allowing a distributed management of information elements:
– remote and cooperative via web
– From multiple sources
– Using diverse programming languages
– Taken into account structure & meaning
For the publication as web portals of contents/data/services
in diverse formats and channels, with full separation between
content and presentation and business logic.
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“XIMDEX is the only CMS
fully independent from
business logic, allowing
deployment of contents &
data in any present or
oncoming technology”
11. Visual edition of XML with Ximdex
WYSIWYG/M for XML during document edition ...
XML
XSLT + RNG
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Automatic
enhancement of
written content
HTML, PDF,
TDT, PHP,
J2EE, RoR, …
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12. … automatic portal generation
Structured documents are automatically
transformed by templates to generate
content, data and applications.
XML
XSLT + RNG
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HTML, PDF,
TDT, PHP,
J2EE, RoR, …
Transformation driven
by the associated meaning!
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13. Decoupled publishing in the cloud …
XIMDEX cloud
(semantic repository,
recommender, ...)
data&web
applications
XIMDEX’s users
(editors, admins,
supervisors, …)
XIMDEX cloud
(editor, transformer,
synchronizer, ...)
video
Final users of published info
(semantic and web portals,
linked open data,
multichannel portals)
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14. Ximdex’s architecture
Semantic & XML
repository
Component for static and dynamic
content/data/apps synchronization
into the cloud
XML transformation
XML rep.
transform pipelines
Semantic store
Remote Exploitation Servers
(in the cloud)
AC
publisher
DC
web
&
data
RDBS
orchestrator
web server & API rest
xedit
xowl
Control Center: workflow,
versioning, permissions, …
video
…
…
Publishing on remote servers in the cloud helps to
reduce technological dependence on the CMS!
Modules: semantic recommendations, wysiwyg/m editor, ...
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applications
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15. XOWL module: automatic annotations
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Annotations in Ximdex can
be represented in any
format or technology (RDFa,
microformats, etc.)
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16. Module XTAGS: tags & annotations
XTAGS
XTAGS manages both structured
(ontologies) and non structured tags.
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17. XLYRE module: Data Hub generation
XLYRE…
Ximdex-Lyre module provides:
• Visual management of raw
data, datasets, metadata,
relationships, etc.
• Automatic transformation to
new formats. Automatic
generation of galleries,
distributions, indexes, etc.
applying filters (SPARQL,
RDFa, …)
• Automatic rendering as Web
Portals applying user defined
templates and Dynamic
Semantic Publishing
techniques.
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18. XFIND module: search engine
XFIND
Configurable search engine
that can simultaneously work
with semantic documents
(RDF), structured (XML) and
non structured (html, pdf,
images, …) documents.
Searching non
structured contents
(html, pdf, doc,
images, ...)
Semantic
search
(RDFa)
Searching structured
documents (XML)
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19. Module XHAWK: IDS for content
XHAWK…
Ximdex-Hawk module
checks and monitors the
integrity of the web portal
in realtime.
When an attack is
detected, it warns the
web administrator and
automatically reverts the
website to the last
published version.
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20. Trust Ximdex
Commercial projects:
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Telefónica
Red.es
University of Seville (US)
Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO)
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Business School: Escuela Organización Industrial (EOI)
Spain’s Central Government (Ministerio de Presidencia)
Royal household of Spain (100% uptime for +4 years)
Reina Sofía Foundation (fundacionreinasofia.es)
…
R&D projects:
– Coordinator:
• CB-DOC (Secure Document Management
combining Cryptography with Biometrics)
http://cbdoc.ximdex.com
Integrators:
– Sopra group, SATEC, etc.
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– Partners:
• IKS (EU FP7)
• CONSUMEDIA
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21. Ximdex’s values and success cases
Ximdex’s values flexibility, security and scalability help our customers to:
– Adapt to new dynamic technologies for rendering content without upgrading:
– Creation of a new visual publishing channel in a few hours (i.e.: DVB).
– Migration of a web portal from XHTML to J2EE in a week.
– Help a ‘business department’ to visually create smart content for a music portal.
– Remove scalability problems with big repositories (+1,5M docs, tenths of millions links)
– Aggregate automatically information from remote sources for an Open Data portal.
– Reach a 100% uptime of web portal for years.
– …
Flexible
Secure
Scalable
Migration in hours to
different simultaneous
technologies!
Detection of attacks in
realtime with automatic
warning and republishing.
Repositories with over
1,5 million of linked
documents.
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