Homepage: http://www.infrae.com/products/silva
Latest Version: 2.0
View Demo: http://test.infrae.com/silva
Silva is an open source CMS in use at many institutions,
primarily in Europe, but also in the US and Australia. It's a powerful solution
for organizations that manage complex websites. Content is stored in clean and
futureproof XML, independent of layout and presentation. Features include
versioning, workflow system, integral visual editor (Kupu), content reuse,
sophisticated access control, multi-site management, extensive import/export
facilities, fine-grained templating, and hi-res image storage and manipulation.
History
Development of Silva began in 2001. Through the support
and contributions of many developers it's grown into a robust and stable content
management system, especially suitable for use at hierarchical organizations.
Today Silva is highly scalable, serving websites with millions of pieces of
content and running in clusters that host 350+ Silva sites.
The initial funding for development came from Erasmus
University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Other investors quickly followed,
such as the visionary ETH Zurich in Switzerland (the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology), Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (the Vienna University of Economics
and Business Administration), the University of Bedfordshire in the UK, and
many others. Independent developers continue to contribute much to Silva; see
the credits file for a list.
Technology
Silva is built upon the advanced Zope application server
which offers a through-the-web management interface, a flexible templating
language, relational database integration besides its built-in object database,
security infrastructure, XML support, extensibility with new components,
scalability through clustering, and many other things. Zope and Silva are
written in Python.
License
Silva and all of its components are open source with a
BSD license.
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