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Steve Reiner has over 30 years of software development experience, including 9 years at Documentum, and 6 years on Harvard Graphics at Software Publishing. Developing open source integrated AI and semantic tech software including UIs, as a semi-retired individual developer / CTO of Integrated Semantics.

Alfresco OpenCalais Integration Share UI

The Alfresco OpenCalais Integration now has UI (Spring Surf / HTML /JavaScript / YUI)  for Alfresco Share in addition to the support in FlexSpaces (Flex/Flash).  The Share UI has a semantic tag cloud dashlet, a geo-tagged (Google map based) semantic map dashlet, and an auto-tagging action.  The Share UI is for Alfresco 3.3 and 3.4.

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The dashlets will show semantic tags in all share sites when added to the overall Share dashboard, and show site specific semantic tags when added to site dashboards.  Clicking on a tag in the semantic tag cloud or on a semantic tag map marker will take you to a search results list of documents with the semantic tag.  The semantic tag cloud dashlet can be changed to show semantic tags for a specific category or all categories.

The semantic tag cloud dashlet is based on  Will Abson’s tag cloud dashlet in the Alfresco Share Extras collection. Will now also has a Google map dashlet in this collection showing geo-location of photo files using Tika extracted metadata available in Alfresco 3.4.

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The added auto-tag action menu (in more menu and details page) can be used to auto tag the selected document with the OpenCalais service. This action is added to both site document libraries and repository document library page menu.The auto-tagging action can also be setup in a content rule to auto-tag all documents in a folder in the rule UI of Alfresco Explorer or in Share (choose to perfom the action “Auto-tag with Calais”).

Note that semantic tags are implemented with categories with a custom root category. They won’t show up in regular Alfresco tag or category UI.  Currently only the Alfresco Explorer details page will list semantic tags (update 3/30/2011: will now show up the Share doc details page too in the 1.3.1 version of the OpenCalais integration).

FlexSpaces, in addition to having the semantic tag clouds, semantic map, and auto-tag action features in the Share UI, also has support for suggesting semantic tags and for editing what semantic tags are assigned to a document.  See the semantic features in action in this screen-cam of an older version of FlexSpaces.

AIR apps for both Apple iPad and Android tablets

Great news on Apple relaxing iOS development tool restrictions

Now using Flex with coming mobile support and AIR to develop both for Android and iOS (with “Adobe AIR Packager for iPhone”) will be possible.

Supporting FlexSpaces (for Alfresco and for Adobe LiveCycle Content Services ES2), CMIS Spaces (for content servers supporting the CMIS standard), FlexibleDashboard, and FlexibleShare AIR apps on these additional platforms is getting more feasible.

Since these apps are geared to larger screens, targeting iPad and Android tablets makes more sense than the small screens (iPhone, Android mobile phones).

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FlexSpaces, CMIS Spaces, and FlexibleDashboard updates

FlexSpaces 0.95  (for Alfresco and for Adobe LiveCycle Content Services ES2)

CMIS Spaces (based on FlexSpaces, for content servers supporting the CMIS standard)

  • Build 17 Added multi-file drag out to desktop in AIR version (in addition to existing multi-file drag in)
  • Build 16 Added fixes to get navigation/browsing and upload to work on Day Software CRX 2.1 + CMIS package (issues remaining with Day CRX: upload doesn’t show up, 0 search results).
  • Tested with Alfresco 3.3g and Day CRX 2.1. Previously have tested with Alfresco 3.2/3.3, EMC Documentum, IBM FileNet, Nuxeo. Haven’t tried with new CMIS support for SharePoint Microsoft has.
  • CMIS Spaces on Google Code
  • CMIS Spaces on Alfresco Forge

FlexibleDashboard

  • Build 2:  Added BIRT report viewer pod
  • Build 2: Added pivotable OLAP grid with XMLA datasource support (Mondrian, Pentaho, etc.)
  • FlexibleDashboard on Google Code

FlexSpaces 0.94 for Adobe LiveCycle Content Services ES2

FlexSpaces for LiveCycle

FlexSpaces Google Code Project   (open source community version is LGPL)

In the new version of FlexSpaces (0.94),  there is now also a special build “FlexSpaces for LiveCycle” that is preconfigured for LiveCycle Content Services ES2 instead of regular Alfresco. The flexspaces-0.94-LiveCycleES2.zip download has both an AIR version and an in-browser version.

This has the new features added in FlexSpaces 0.94 (less steps editing in AIR version, navigation panel, new bigger labeled toolbar icons,  show logged in as).  This version also takes advantage of some things added in Content Services ES2 to avoid getting some initial extra authentication prompts. (FlexSpaces for LiveCycle now requires ES2 and doesn’t support ES1). Also the setup for FlexSpaces with LiveCycle is easier than in the past. Just install the integratedsemantics.zip webscripts and set host name in FlexSpacesConfig.xml as described in the readmeLC.txt in the zip.

Calais Integration

Note that the Calais Integration in the Alfresco Forge works fine with LiveCycle Content Services ES2 and  FlexSpaces has UI for it (auto semantic tagging, tag suggestion, tag clouds, google map displaying geo-tags). The ES2 installer allows you to include custom AMP files such as the CalaisIntegration.amp. I used the turnkey install, selected the custom option when the Configuration Manager ran.  I had the calaisIntegration.amp release 1.1  in c:\amps.  When the config mgr is deploying content services, check the include custom amps checkbox, and browse to choose c:\amps.  For instructions on adding an amp to an existing install see Dr Flex & Dr LiveCycle (although the paths are different in ES2).

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CMIS Spaces updated with offline features, less steps editing

CMIS Spaces build 15

CMIS Spaces in Alfresco Forge ,  CMIS Spaces Google Code Project

CMIS Spaces has been updated with the following features in build 15:

  • Update Existing file support added (Update toolbar button, Edit / Update menu)
  • FlexSpaces AIR offline features added (CMIS Spaces AIR only): Tools / Make Available Offline menu (multiple select, not deep into folders), Tools / Update from Offline menu (single select)
  • Features added in FlexSpaces 0.94 (less steps editing in AIR version, new bigger labeled toolbar icons,  show logged in as)
  • The less steps editing feature gives you WebDAV like simpler editing /  and save directly in application to save in the CMIS Server.  Supporting this alternative to WebDAV with CMIS could be an important feature since the CMIS standard doesn’t have WebDAV.
  • Also updated the optional CMIS Spaces SOAP web services support (setup in CMISSpacesConfig.xml, search and navigation only currently) and tested with Alfresco 3.3 http://cmis.alfresco.com Tested the more full featured CMIS Spaces atompub rest support with Alfresco 3.2R2, Alfresco 3.3, quick test with Nuxeo. Tested previous build of CMIS Spaces with Documentum and IBM FileNet also.
  • Note: CMIS Spaces has had a DAM feature since the beginning (play video from the context menu).