This initiative consists of several parts:

• The immediate goal is to implement an Alfresco WCM infrastructure in preparation to support the future version of the IS&T department website
• Investigating the viability of offering Alfresco WCM as a general service to the MIT community

There has been a desire for MIT to choose an enterprise content management system. This goal is very vague, because content management can mean so many things - it is a widely misused term. In looking at MIT's exact needs, the following are the categories of content management that MIT has an interest in pursuing:

• Enterprise document management - A centralized document store which is shareable across a community
• Web content management - A specialized application of document management focused on web content management
• Digital asset management - A centrailized storage for large quantities of digital resources, mostly images, but including other media types like video and audio