Lodel, a Content Management System for Electronic Reviews and Academic Web Sites
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The CMS project Lodel was started in about 2002, built by Christian
Picard - originally a physicist - under Marin Dacos's supervision, a
historian. Their primary target was to provide a publishing tool for
electronic reviews in history and humanities. 

With Lodel, you can publish pages easily in 3 different ways, from
direct text import from a text processor file format to FCKeditor or
just a simple wiki syntax -  The direct import from text processing
format being running thanks to OpenOffice.org, through a remote server
called Servoo. 

Lodel's intelligent architecture allows flexibility and
interoperability.  

With help of a MySQL database and a high level abstraction layer, you
can create all kinds of publishable objects though a straight forward
web interface, without having to write a single SQL line. That done,
you will tweak the way your objects get displayed with a template
scripting language called Lodelscript. 

The Lodel developers were concerned with publishing standards right
from the start, therefore Lodel offers RSS and OAI - Open Archive
Initiative - outputs, and you can match your own metadata with the
Dublin Core standard. 

Lodel has a good PHP web installer and makes it easy to create new
sites. 

The project received a price "Trophée du Libre" in 2005 for its
quality.
 
During this talk, I will first demonstrate Lodel features and how it
is used in practice by various user categories. After that, I will
show in detail the publishable objects and how they are built, mostly
through my own experience as a wab site and database administrator for
the University of Paris Sud 11. 

Links
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http://www.lodel.org
http://www.revues.org
http://recherche.jm.u-psud.fr
http://2005.tropheesdulibre.org/article.php3?id_article=47