A lightweight multimedia web content management system

More and more organizations find it more convenient to distribute and collaborate on content through internet than by traditional methods, and the demand for the management and integration of multimedia content among sites is also increasing. This paper proposes a Lightweight Content Management System (CMS) implementation for multimedia web content*. It has a loose-coupled extensible architecture and covers major requirements of a common CMS. It was designed from scratch independent of any existing traditional CMS to adapt distributional environment and emerging world wide collaboration standards. It focuses on establishing skeleton for many additional or enhanced features versus traditional CMS, such as portability, collaboration, supporting multimedia content from multiple sources, extendable meta-data, unified hierarchical taxonomy management, automatic discovery of related content of various media types, taxonomy and role based fine-grained access control etc. We describe the architecture and the design details of the system.