Documentum for the Web

Perspectives & Possibilities

The Documentum Team

Lance Callaway, Brooke Durbin, Perry Koob, Lorie McMillin, Jennifer Song

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Rolla, Missouri
 Documentum as a Web Platform
A Framework for Rapid Site Deployment

• Continuous Infrastructure Improvements

• Custom Site Builder (create a site in minutes, not days)
• Campus Identity, Branding and Unification
• Centralized Navigation and Information Architecture
• Distributed Design (style sheets)
• Reusable Content Repository (share content on the web)
• Administrative Repository (Flash, JavaScript)
• System Integrations including Peoplesoft, Blog & RSS Feeds,
Events, Web Form Tool
• Custom Search & Replace Utility
• Custom Menu Utility
• Java Application Integration
• Integration with Google Mini Appliance
 Documentum Infrastructure
Continuous Improvement
2008 Infrastructure
• Initial installation not 2004 Infrastructure
robust enough for
enterprise software
• Continuous upgrades and
tuning have improved
performance dramatically
• 2008 - Upgrade to
Documentum 6
• Enterprise Class
Infrastructure and System
Architecture
Single Custom XML Content Template
– One Size Fits All
Body area with Category, Title, Content, Images, and
searchable taxonomy of “content includes” for content
reuse as appropriate. “Author once, Publish many”.
Repeatable, customizable Pullout Areas

Repeatable, customizable Sidebar blocks

Centralized Navigation & Architecture, Distributed Design

Global Configuration Files per “Site Type”

Categories (academics, research, etc.)

Local Configuration Override files per Site

Searchable Taxonomy of Reusable Content

Author Once… Publish Many…

System Integrated
with Documentum

• PeopleSoft feeds to
Documentum

• Moveable Type Blog feeds to

Documentum

• Custom News Feeds within

Documentum
Custom Site
Applications & Utilities

• Custom DA WDK Site Builder

Application for template based
Site Creation

• Custom WP WDK Site

Maintenance Application for
directory creation/deletion

• Custom WP WDK Menu Wizard

for distributed menu maintenance

• Custom WP WDK Search &

Replace Utility for All content for
All sites
 Rebranding the Official Web
(or how Documentum helped us rebrand 180 web sites in a day)
• Summer migration of ~150 sites
• Clone to Rebranding Hardware
• Private Domain Name Server
• Custom Search & Replace Utility
• 12,000 web pages
• 25,000 links
• 5,000 textual references
• Key Web Framework Benefits
• Centralized Header Files
• Centralized Footers
• Centralized Branded Graphics
• Centralized Global Navigation
• Centralized (and localized) style
sheets
• Reusable Content Repository
• Centralized Menu Code
• Centralized News & Events Feeds
• Centralized Blog & RSS Feeds
• Google Mini Appliance
 Centralized Identity, Branding & Control

Distributed Author & Content Reuse

One XSLT Presentation

Many Styles!!

Efficient & Effective

Sustainable & Supportable
Award Winning!
Next - Official Course & Faculty Page Automation

PeopleSoft
Courses & People
Scholars’ Mine Research Repository
DEFINE
The Scholars’ Mine is a digital collection of Missouri S&T’s
scholarly work.
CONTRIBUTE
Students can contribute theses and dissertations through a
CATALOGUE
custom Java , which captures the requisite information and
places it in the Documentum repository as a document, with an
The system provides a custom cataloging application
associated xml file of meta-data.
PUBLISH
accessible by the library staff to further qualify every piece of
content in the collection with Dublin Core Qualified meta-data,
Once catalogued,
an international the library
standard staff can use
for describing a workflow
digital objects.for final
approvals and publishing out to the Scholar’s Mine web
presence.
BROWSE
Currently, the Scholar’s Mine provides browsing by title, author,
SEARCH
department, date and paper type.

A custom interface was built into the Google Mini Appliance

to mirror the scholar’s mine identity. Users can currently
perform full text searching and as the mine grows, an
advanced search will be implemented.

Scholars’ Mine data will be published out to OAIster and

Google Scholar in the coming year.
Next – Scholars’ Mine Advanced Search - Faculty Database of Experts
 Documentum as an Enterprise Solution
Maximizing on the Investment

• Web Content Management

• Digital Asset Management
• Document Management
• Documentum 6 & Page Builder
• Next Generation Web Authoring Tools (Page Builder)
• Collaboration Tools
 Live Demos

Documentum Web Framework

Scholar’s Mine Web Site