This week we announce the updated, Spring 2002 edition of The CMS Report.

Web Content Management is notable for its dearth of industry-wide standards. But now, at the impetus of Euro-CM vendor Day, a group has formed to create a "Java Specification Request" (JSR-170 for those of you counting at home) to create a standard API for access to disparate content repositories within the J2EE environment.

March 4-8th brings the annual AIIM convention, this year in San Francisco.

Longtime OpenMarket integrator Granitar has just released a series of Plumtree portal gadgets for the Content Server WCM product now owned by divine.

In a recent CMSWatch interview, Dave Winer shared a vision of personal content management.

ArsDigita, the open-source CMS and community-collaboration services company founded by Web-database guru Phil Greenspun, has called it quits.

Every year Gartner Group surveys 1500 corporate CIOs to understand their priorities for the coming quarters.

OK, you know about WCM and ECM, and perhaps LCM (Learning Content Management).

In WCM there is always a tension between caching content closer to visitors for performance reasons versus doing useful real-time processing like dynamic navigation or personalization.

US federal requirements for website accessibility known as Section 508 (and the similar W3C User Agent Accessibility Guidelines) require special HTML tagging.

CMSWatch is high on Web Services for the same reason everyone else is: instead of just hypertext we'll have hyperservices.

The MS Content Management Server (formerly nCompass Resolution) just won a Crossroads 2002 A-List award.

Sometimes not, according to information architecture guru, Peter Morville. In a long piece (with several other good nuggets), he argues that a relational model better suits large taxonomies.

CMS Watch readers know that we often look favorably on old-line DM vendors, who tend to understand complex content structures and sometimes offer strong XML support.

CMSWatch believes that open-source CM platforms will finally come of age in 2002.