This week we’ve been working hard at finding and implementing a replacement ECM after the trial license for our previous ECM was revoked. We were unable to work with any vendors to receive extensions or new licenses, so we identified a free open-source ECM system that we will continue our development on. In our initial trade study, this ECM ranked 4th out of the 11 we evaluated. At first we were hesitant to work with an open source solution, but our liaisons assured us that there isn’t a problem with it and we have started to port our progress over to the new system.

This week we’ve been able to establish the basic user group / role structure that we had set up on our prototype. We’ve also made progress with setting up a remote database and running the ECM locally at our lab. Lastly, we’ve been working on creating a backend API library that will make it much easier for us when we eventually begin developing a custom web application that integrates with the ECM data. In terms of testing, we’ve been researching different testing platforms and we have been exploring the potential of testing the ECM using its API.