I originally intended to post this as a follow up to the Topic Maps 2009: Conference Day entry, but as our little baby girl wanted out 1 month prior to the ETA, I all of a sudden got my hands full — and so I didn’t get to finish it until recently. Anyways, here goes…
The newest version of the open source CMS (SMS (?)) based on Zope and Topic Maps – ZTM3 reached beta stage earlier this year.
While its predecessor — ZTM2, running on Zope 2.x — has been empowering a multitude of web portals for years (examples: Arctic-Council.org, Forbrukerportalen.no, Hoyre.no), ZTM3 is a new and completely re-written ZTM implementation built on the Zope 3 eco system
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It initially started with the new University of Bergen (UiB) web site, which is the only publicly available ZTM3 empowered site to date (presented at Topic Maps 2009), and is (as far as I know) currently used by the UiB and one additional organization.
Released under the LGPL/GPL license and fully open source, there is, however, no reason why it should end there.
I’m just starting to get familiar with ZTM3 myself, and this blog post is both a result of my own initial testing & previewing of ZTM3, as well as an attempt to raise awareness about ZTM3′s existence amongst my fellow web developers.
Lets start by having a look at how you can set up and get started with ZTM3, and then move on to more “advanced” stuff in subsequent postings (I only hope that those can follow in not too long).
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