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CMS for university to hold documents and science articles

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Karl Pietrzak

Thursday 15 June 2006 1:27:24 pm

Hello everyone.

I have no experience with content management systems, so I would be eternally grateful if someone could provide me with some insight if eZ Publish will meet my needs.

I'm working on developing a web-based CMS for a science-related department at my university. The idea is that professors would be able to submit all types of data on there, such as master's theses, science articles, and software.

Here's a few use cases:
1. Professor submits a link to a great Science Magazine they read over the weekend about gene splicing.
2. Graduate student submits their Master's thesis on gene splicing.
3. Another Professor finds a great piece of software that helps with modeling gene splicing.
4. A random student comes in, searches for "gene splicing" in the CMS, and the CMS comes back with the link to the Science Magazine article, the grad student's Master's thesis, and that gene splicing piece of software.

The system would also catch duplicates, so that all five Professor's wouldn't be able to post the same Science article. Is this possible? Would eZ Publish be good for this? Like I said, any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks ahead of time!

Björn Dieding@xrow.de

Thursday 15 June 2006 9:10:20 pm

points 1-4 are easy to manage

> The system would also catch duplicates, so that all five Professor's wouldn't be able to post the same Science article.

this requires a custom datatype or a workflow event before publish

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