TMCore Sitecore Module
The TMCore Sitecore Module is a based on the TMCore Topic Map Engine and Sitecore Content Management System and is a feature-rich and robust enterprise classification, navigation and search technology that adds Topic Map capability to any Sitecore solution.
This module allows content to be classified into a Topic Map. A Topic Map is a collection of related topics that together form an information model. These topics can be related to other topics that are relevant to search and navigation for a particular site. In the delivery environment this classification information can be used to create related links between conceptually similar documents, alternative navigation paths, content from other servers, and classified search results.
The TMCore Sitecore Module provides a way to conceptually organize and connect content across one or more web sites and back-end information systems. This allows users to have a single point of access to all information about a given subject or topic regardless of where the information is stored. Topic-based content organization maximizes the ability to deliver key information to a user, and enables better targeting and re-use of content.
As topics can be connected to each other in many different ways it is possible to provide users with different navigation paths to reach the same document. The TMCore Sitecore Module allows users to navigate information in the same way they think about it. This is a huge improvement over poorly maintained manual links and a single navigation hierarchy.
TMCore works seamlessly with Sitecore, whether on web sites, portals or intranets. The key to the integration between TMCore and Sitecore is .NET technology and the power and versatility of the TMCore product and Topic Map model. In addition to providing integrated search, the TMCore Sitecore Module supports the security, workflow and personalization models of Sitecore.
Features
- Enterprise-wide information and knowledge management.
- Break out of the hierarchy of Sitecore sites to navigate and search based on classification.
- Group search results by the concepts associated with results
- No more broken links by generated links produced by defining the type of content you want to link to.
- Capture knowledge by allowing users to create a map of the subjects in their domain of expertise.
- Easy to use - classification information appears as part of the Sitecore editorial interface.
- Ontology-driven classification with an efficient AJAX-based UI dynamically tailored by the ontology.
- Immediate feedback - classification creates links between related items immediately available for previewing.
- Always somewhere to navigate - prevent website dead-ends through topic map technology because links are always bi-directional.
- Extensibility - TMCore provides an extension point for integration of other external information sources.
- Automatically add links to existing content without having to republish - by expressing lists of related content by query, for example: "Show me all articles by this author", by adding a new article the list will be updated everywhere it is used as soon as the article is published.
Screenshots
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Classification controls integrate with the Sitecore Content Manager application for meta-data editing. The classification controls are schema-driven prompting the user for only the properties and relations that are appropriate for the classified content type. A variety of different selection interfaces are supported including:
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Support applications including the Configuration Checker and Consistency Checker, integrated with the Sitecore desktop, allow administrators to easily diagnose configuration and operational issues and correct them easily. |
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Custom controls such as the Topic Cloud allow tag clouds to be created easily by specifying queries against the information model in the Sitecore Solution. |
Availability and Technical Requirements
TMCore Sitecore Module will require Sitecore 5.3.1 or later and SQL Server 2005. The TMCore Sitecore Module is currently in closed beta, however if you'd like more information, please get in touch with us at contact@networkedplanet.com.