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OASIS Web Experience Management Interoperability (WEMI) : Web Experience Management (WEM, or any of about a half-dozen other crapronyms) is getting serious about standardization.

The OASIS WEMI TC works to define a simple domain model for delivering aggregated content into a total Web Experience. When complete, WEMI’s abstract feature set will constitute an international open standard, widely implementation by WCM/WEM systems.

I think they’ll have a tough go of it – there’s just so much interpretation in this space right now.  Here’s a couple prior blog posts about it:

• The Dawn of the Web Content Delivery System (WCDS)
• The Bifurcation of Content Management and Delivery

In general, it refers to the concentration of functionality in the delivery tier – things like personalization, marketing automation, etc.  At least, that’s what I think it refers to, and therein lies the problem. Looking at scope of work on the OASIS site, they cite these use cases:

For the initial set of deliverables, the TC will target a very focused set of use cases:

• Display and Mashup Content from a WCM
• Index Content and Metadata
• Export all Content / Migration

I guess that sorta fits my definition.  Maybe.