Open Source Document Retrieval System
Ilya Palagin
tux-4CS0UopE6WdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Wed Oct 20 05:29:53 UTC 2004
Christopher Browne wrote:
>>If you need some kind of on-line document repository, Owl Intranet
>>Knowledgebase is a great choice:
>>
>>http://sourceforge.net/projects/owl
>
>
> Another approach would be to install Wiki software such as TWiki, and
> upload documents into that.
>
> Indexing would be handled two ways:
> - Wikis generally have some "search" scheme;
> - You can build Wiki documents that provide indexes pointing to
> documents of interest
>
> At the office, we have a Zope install; it provides the two indexing
> mechanisms:
> a) You can do "text search" search throughout the set of documents
> checked in;
> b) Each document has to be placed _somewhere_ in a "tree" that tries
> to organize documents.
Isn't it the same approach?
>
> I would like to see an "open source Documentum," where the idea would be
> thus:
> -> You "check in" documents perhaps including some metadata...
>
> -> A "spooler/archiver" process takes the documents, extracts
> whatever metadata is possible ("file" can give some useful data!)
> and then does two things:
>
> 1. Stashes the document somewhere, perhaps under an arbitrarily
> cryptic name;
>
> 2. Stores the metadata in a database of some sort to assist in
> searching/selecting documents.
This is almost what Owl is :-). It creates indexes for uploaded ASCII,
Word and PDF documents, saving them either in MySQL database or as
files. It allows to check in/check out documents while one is updating
them.
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