Overview

Open Content: Make your content available for both your users, developers and readers

What is Open Content?

If you are thinking about creating your own headless CMS, Open Content will fit right in, and will solve several tedious parts of your journey ahead – storage, API’s, scalability, authentication and indexing just to name a few.

Open Content is a handy toolbox: we use it in our own solutions, for example as content backend for our Digital Writer and Newsroom apps as well as powering the Naviga web presentation layer. We also use it in our XLibris archive solution. Our customers uses it to power in-house built presentation solutions.

Together with the Naviga Creation and Presentation tools, Open Content delivers a standardised easy-to-maintain setup. You can also use Open Content as a content agnostic storage and search engine for digital content.

Using Amazon S3 as the main storage means in theory unlimited capacity. XML metadata files are used to describe the uploaded content. Properties are defined and extracted from the metadata using XPATH 2.0 expressions.

Indexing is done using Solr, an open source enterprise search platform built on Apache Lucene™, making your content accessible for any purpose.

Different content types (for example articles, images, lists, graphics) are separated and has their own specific properties setup. Relations between content items can be easily created, minimising the amount of requests needed to fetch the content.

We offer a standard OC setup for both content production as well as presentation, built on best practices. The standard setups are used with the Naviga Creation and Presentation Platforms.

What is it not?

It’s not a video- or streaming platform. If you want to store and edit streamed content, we recommend to use a specialised platform serving that purpose, like Flowplayer, Youplay or Youtube. It may be convenient to have access to such content within Open Content and then it’s just to add those objects and a subset of metadata to the Open Content as well, with a link to the original source.