Content management standards efforts
December 9, 2005. The OpenUsability Project is working towards common user interface guidelines for Content Management Systems to provide consistency and promote good design: http://www.openusability.org/projects/cms-uig/.
Other standards efforts are:
Business Readiness Rating™ (BRR), a proposed new standard model for rating open source software: http://www.openBRR.org.
ISO/IEEE Standard for Content Management:
http://www.keycontent.org/tiki-index.php?page=Content+Management+Standards.
CMSML Project, developing a markup language for CMS to facilitate comparisons and evaluations (125 systems in draft as of September 2005):
http://www.cmsml.org.
CMS Matrix comparisions: http://www.cmsmatrix.org.