On the integration of a conventional content management system into a semantic system

Content management systems (CMS) have been established to ease hosting and organizing of large amounts of multimedia content. However, existing systems often have to struggle with heterogeneity and distribution of the content and meta-data over several repositories; Furthermore, these systems often lack user support by offering fulltext search in text documents only or support browsing based on predefined-defined static taxonomies not adapting to new content. In this paper we address these issues by facilitating Semantic technologies and introduce a semantic CMS reference architecture. Our approach offers the integration of different CMS services on a semantic level based on a modular architecture. The applicability will be shown by migrating an existing CMS platform containing e-learning content to our semantically enhanced architecture on service and data level. -- Integration ; legacy system ; semantic content management system