AIIM To Develop Interoperable ECM Standard

AIIM, the Silver Spring, MD enterprise content management standards developer yesterday revealed a new project to develop a service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework for Interoperable Enterprise Content Management (iECM).

The iECM project will specify a common integration layer between different enterprise content management systems and multiple business applications. The goal is to help organizations integrate content into business processes through a common set of standards for accessing, exchanging, managing and integrating structured and unstructured content.

The project committee will take into consideration efforts defined by OASIS, the JAVA Community and others as it drafts an international standard. This standards development effort will provide end-user organizations, vendors and integrators with guidance for building content-centric applications and business processes. It will provide vendors with direction on how to evolve their technologies to deliver interoperable services.

This committee formed by AIIM will identify issues to be addressed, as well as proposed solutions, and will develop a draft document that will then be presented to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for development and approval as an International Standard.

Anyone having an interest in this work, and able to contribute technical expertise, is both invited and encouraged to actively participate. Interested persons can register to participate on this committee by contacting Betsy Fanning at AIIM.

An organizational meeting is scheduled for May 18, 2005 at AIIM OnDemand 2005 in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Convention Center to begin defining the issues that this effort needs to address and begin to identify existing standards that will play a critical role.