1. Midgard
Not just a CMS

2. Henri
Bergius
henri.bergius@iki.fi
http://bergie.iki.fi

3. Finnish Midgard solution provider
www.nemein.com

4. Midgard is different

5. CMS Watch:
“Hanseatic league
of open source
Joint
content
venture
between management”
several
companies

6. Not just a CMS

7. Not just a CMS
Repository-oriented architecture
●
Libgda provides database abstraction: SQLite,
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MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, ...
D-Bus signals provide interprocess
●
communications
Language bindings to C, PHP, Python, Mono
●
(C#) and Objective-C
PHP is the main UI language
●

8. “Lego brick model”
Connect standard MidCOM components together to
build your site, then customize layout and
configuration

9. Integration with social web services
Import and provide RSS
●
feeds
Synchronize photos with
●
Flickr
Get location from Plazes
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Get status from Twitter,
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Jaiku or Qaiku
Aggregate and publish
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Microformats

10. The march to Midgard 2

11. Old Midgard –
codenamed
“Ragnaroek”
system is a
capable CMS
New Midgard2 –
codenamed
“Vinland” is where
IKS will be applied

12. Headed for the Semantic Web

13. Adding ontologies to MgdSchemas

14. Semantic indexing and SPARQL

15. Semantic tagging in WYSIWYG editor

16. Exposing more semantic data via
Microformats or RDFa

17. www.midgard-project.org - www.midgard2.org
Henri Bergius
Email: henri.bergius@nemein.com
XMPP: henri.bergius@nemein.com
Blog: http://bergie.iki.fi/
Microblog: bergie (Twitter & Qaiku)
Photos by myself, Toni Eliasz, Tuomas Kuosmanen and Fredrik Koivusalo