ZMS - open source content management for science, technology and medicine

Overview: ZMS is a free open source CMS-solution, excellently suitable for hospitals, research, institutions and international SME. The underlying efficiency-oriented publication model is the result of many consulting projects in the recent years with CMS products usual in the market. Modularity of the ZMS components and approved production processes turn ZMS into an uncomparably rapid tool.

The most important features of ZMS at a glance:

• Easy usability, particularly when entering content (web forms)
• Strict separation of contents and design components
• Universally applicable, modular template model and efficient design concept
• Categorisation concept and library-conformable meta attributes
• Workflow and role concept
• Editorial work tools (notes, alerting, work lists)
• Multilingual publishing
• Multi-client capability
• XML-Interface for document import and export
• Large extensibility (script languages DTML, Python; database interfaces)
• Continuous object orientation (inheritance concept)
• Production benefit by use of content and application modules

Screenshot of the ZMS management interface: the ZMS interface is concentrated on the text input and the markup. The extremely easy and fast application enables the editor to construct the content of a whole website without any HTML knowledge. Access the ZMS test zone

Background: ZMS uses the open source application server ZOPE and is optimised for the building of structured contents. This system facilitates the editorial process by prescribing a homogeneous concept for the structure and the development of internet documents. ZMS makes the „one click publishing“ also possible for the inexperienced user by the direct entering of contents in a web form. The ZMS framework offers complete solution approaches for the most important questions when structuring and operating a content-oriented website and allows for a flexible modelling of electronic contents to the expert.