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benevolentact

VisionThe vision of the software is to create a suite of web-based editorial management tools for news corporations to manage publications and broadcasts. The suite will contain a content management server maintaining a database of content items (articles, photos, audio and video) with attached ... [More] meta-data a content management client providing a user interface into the content management server connectors for automatically transfering content from the database onto popular web content management system (WCMS). NewsVersion 1.0 Available (4. October 2008 at 01.42am)Version 1.0 of the editorial workflow management system is available from the source repository. To install the software you will need to checkout the 1.0 tag from the source repository and build it using the Maven software project management tool. Features available in Version 1.0 include: Publication management (Specifying editors, sub-editors, sections and structures) Article workflow management (Fixed workflow for authoring a workflow from start to end, i.e. from when the journalist writes an article till it is published in the publication and possibly one or more websites) User management (Managing users and their roles) Receiving newswire stories via RSS Searchable photo and article archive Metadata for photos and articles Support for multiple user roles: Journalists, Editors, Sub-Editors, Chief Sub-Editors, Section Chiefs, Chief Editors, and Library staff Connector and Adapter for distributing (circulating) published content to Joomla-based websites and more... Feel free to get in contact if you are interested in the software. [Less]