Title:	Issues in Enterprise Content Management 

Abstract:
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) describes any of the technologies
employed in content management for handling the capture, storage, security,
version control, retrieval, distribution, preservation and destruction of
digital content. This seminar discusses some technical issues confronting
ECM Systems. My lecture explains problems encountered in ECM through the
interactions of search, access control and persistence. Access control
management is common to all ECM and the emerging solution is Role-based
Access Control which I describe.  Information Retrieval is complicated in
ECM systems because of the interaction of documents with the access control
system. Because most ECMs are distributed document stores, the issues of
caching and distributed update coordination are also problematic. I will
present some well-known solutions in terms of distributed, lightweight
epidemic update protocols. 

About the Speaker: Peter Eklund is the Chair of Information Systems at The
University of Wollongong. Peter is on secondment to Sydney-based ECM company
Objective Corporation as its Principal Research Scientist,
(http://www.objective.com/News/PressReleases/2007/070328.html)