Manifesto. For a new breed of content management systems

I started working on the Idea of CMS long time ago (1998). In the last years I have build highly personalized CMS for Publishing, Elearning/Education and b2b.

My aim here is to analyze and propose new forms of CMS more content oriented rather than structure oriented. The main idea, to put it plainly, is that to publish content you need to use content itself to mold the structure of the data underling a site or a service.

By the way I will analyze some "content user segments" (CUS) that more need such an "expressive power growth".

Theoretically there are several formal tools ready to use. From Concept Algebras, Bayesian (and non) content analysis and Semantic Web RDF Logic.

In practical terms I will focus mostly on a set of small niche needs as:

• conferences and event announcement and management.
  
• photographers and art galleries online presence.
• courses and education management.
• news based content publishing.
• small publisher intranet/extranet tools and services.

One of the main problems arising in a CMS adoption by literate content producers is the counter intuitive CMS workflow. That is one of the causes of the steep leaning curve CMSs have.