Utilizing External Services and Sharing Content in a Content Management System

Abstract

People are using more and more online services. Many of the services are used for storing content. Also the number of users’ personal devices – mobile phones, laptops, cameras, and so forth – is increasing rapidly. Consequently, the amount of content stored in the services and devices people are using is constantly growing. Managing all of the content located in different places is therefore becoming an increasing problem. It is not easy to search for a certain piece of content, if one cannot remember in what service or device the content is stored at. Content can also easily become forgotten and lost in a rarely used device. This thesis presents new and improved features to an existing content management system named VisualREST, which is designed for managing content from all of the user’s devices. We are presenting new ways of importing content from user’s devices, as well as importing content from external services, in order for the content management system to be as comprehensive as possible. Searching content is an important and often used feature of a content management system. Therefore, a new, user-friendlier interface for searching content is presented. Sharing content with other users should be quick and easy, and for that end a notion of context is presented. It is designed to help share content between a predefined group of people. All of these features have been implemented and tested in VisualREST. /Kir12