Abstract

In order to publish a large amount of information on their websites, academic institutions need to have systems that will enable them easy and fast publishing without long periods of education and adaptation in order to accept such systems. Usage of such systems have to be distributed to all organisation's subjects instead of being limited to a small group of technologically adept people in organisation. Aim of this paper is to test suitability of implementing Typo3 content management system in academic institutions in Croatia in order to improve web publishing process of this institutions. Suitability is tested comparing Typo3 concepts and features against widely accepted requirements for web content management systems in general and also considering specific conditions found in Croatian academic network environment.

INTRODUCTION
In order to publish a large amounts of information on their websites academic institutions need to have systems that will enable them easy and fast publishing without long periods of education and adaptation in order to accept such systems. Usage of such systems have to be distributed to all organisation's subjects instead of being limited to a small group of technologically adept people in organisation. Typo3 CMS is web content management system published under GPL license. His primary goal is to provide advanced cms features of high-end cms systems to users that can not afford high-end investments in this field but have high-end needs. Aim of this paper is to test suitability of implementing Typo3 content management system in academic institutions in Croatia in order to improve web publishing process of this institutions. Suitability is tested comparing Typo3 concepts and features against widely accepted requiremens for web content management systems in general and also considering specific conditions found in Croatian academic network environment.

1. COMMON REQUIREMENTS FOR WEB CMS
In last few years term web content management systems have been thoroughly examined and defined. For needs of this research author is using guidelines published at: [1] http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/kmc_evaluate/ for testing cms requirements (especially for content creation and content management ) and comparing Typo3 system against those defined requirements to see how it fulfils basic cms requirements. Results are in most cases satisfactory, but Typo3 also fails in a few important areas as content versioning and work flow management. However, for most of the areas that Typo3 fails this test, solutions are currently in development.

2. SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS IN CROATIAN ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT
Croatian Academic and Research network provided Croatian academic society with common IT infrastructure providing also a common base for CMS implementation. That common base includes many advantages for implementing single CMS solution on many institutions. However, so many different institutions involved can cause additional restrictions and a broader set of requirements. This advantages, restrictions and requirements are here defined and Typo3 is tested against them. Typo3 gives very good results at this tests.

3. MOST IMPORTANT FEATURES AND OVERALL PERFORMANCE
With so much requirements it is necessary to prioritize them in order to test system's suitability for performing most important tasks. Since simplicity and ease of web publishing for broad segment of different users is most important factor for acceptance and desired usage of a system, importance of features is rated on their ability to simplify and improve content creation process. Based on features such as: content formatting options, content reusage and portability, user administration, user privileges system, etc. Typo3 system emerges as a very good solution for web content management in Croatian academic institutions.

CONCLUSION
Comparing Typo3 features and concepts with above stated requirements positions Typo3 system as an above average CMS that can compete with many commercially available systems. However, specific set of features that Typo3 offers puts it as one of excellent solutions for implementation in Croatian academic environment since this system is suited to fulfil almostall specific requirements for usage in this field.

REFERENCES
[1] How to evaluate a content management system. http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/kmc_evaluate/

Biography
Toni Milovan works at Faculty of Economics and Tourism in Pula as an computer systems administrator and assistant at department of mathematics, statistics and computing, and also as cms integrator at web development agency. Currently he is studying at masters study of IT Management at Graduate School of Economics and Business in Zagreb. For past two years he is involved in Typo3 CMS development as an "Chief translator for Croatian language" meaning he coordinates all efforts for localization of Typo3 to Croatian language, he published and maintains one public Typo3 extension and have been involved in development of number of web sites using Typo3 CMS framework.