What Is Podium Podium is a platform neutral document management system that is aimed at busy publishing departments. Written in Java , Podium has a Swing interface and also a Web interface for remote authoring. An XML parser is included to facilitate the XML specific features described below. Automated meta-data updating from XML elements or attribute content. The documentation for Podium is in Word 97 format, and comprises a number of guides, including a user guide, collection administrator guide, Web user guide and system administrator guide.
Many publishers have external editorial staff, working from home.
With a Web interface, documents can be checked-out and back in over the Web. The IBM Java parser is included. The SAX API is used to read the document when it is first imported, and each time it is checked-in.