The Darwin Domino Connector or DDC allows you to point the Darwin Awareness Engine™ at content within Domino. The Darwin Awareness Engine™ is a content discovery tool that helps users track Web and Enterprise 2.0 events, uncover emerging trends and gain faster understanding of complex issues. Here is a brief overview. The Awareness Engine can be pointed at content on the Web or inside the enterprise. In this case we wanted to provide Notes users the opportunity to make use of the full capabilities of the Awareness Engine. What follows is a more detailed description of how it works. Please address any questions you might have to [email protected].
The DDC is a Domino database and agents that serve RSS feeds created from records in Notes database views. The DDC is designed to extend the reach of Domino Domino content through RSS 2.0 feeds to the Darwin Awareness Engine. It provides a non-intrusive and centralized configuration for easy administration of your Domino feeds.
Essentially, the DDC converts Notes view data to XML format for consumption by RSS readers and aggregators, by mapping XML tags to column, field or custom keyword. You use one DDC Feed Definition form to RSS-enable one Domino Notes view or folder. Within the document, you specify such attributes as: feed title, language and optional description. You can further refine the RSS feed description with a set of optional tags.
There is also the option of using External Web Pages to collect and transport Web-enabled documents as RSS items to the Darwin Awareness Engine. This view provides links to static URLs for resources that may not be part of a Domino view. For example, you might use this to aggregate important company documents such as Human Resources, corporate policies and knowledge assets found in HTML and PDF formats.
The diagram shown below illustrates how it works. The DDC reaches into your Lotus Domino intranet allowing you to observe the pulse of your enterprise’s collaboration. You can now observe your own collaboration emerging topics on a ScanCloud™ regardless of the different Domino Databases’ architecture.
You can create RSS feeds from any Domino database, including e-mail, calendar, and contact entries from a user's mail database. No NSF design modifications are required. You can even use the Derived Mail option in the DDC Feed Definition form to RSS-enable all mail files on the server.
As any service request to Domino servers, the feed’s security is specified in the DDC Feed Definition Form according to Domino ACL policies. An authorized Darwin Awareness Engine user must be added to the Domino Domain’s ACL to allow the generation of RSS feeds. You can only access and generate feeds for databases co-located on the same server.
Again we welcome your input. Please contact us at [email protected]. During Lotusphere we can set up a Lotusphere Darwin Edition(TM) to monitor the conversations around this event.
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