I was looking at the WordPress knowledge base plugin is pretty neat. On May 26, 2015 6:58 PM, "Nathan England" wrote: > Thanks for all the input. The articles that are going to be put into the > system currently only exist on paper. Which I have no plans of scanning in. > These will be lovingly typed in, mostly by myself. Many of the articles > will have references to each other, so wikimedia's easy ability to link > between other documents is important to me. I want it simple. > > This is definitely one of those issues where I really want the technology > to just help me do what I want to do and not turn into a major development > project or something that requires more time to maintain than the system > itself for me to use. > > I just want to type in my documents and be able to search and link between > them. > > If it helps at all, this is personal bible study notes and sermons from > the last 10 years. I don't want to lose any of it and I want to expand on a > lot of it. I also want to begin typing up a complete commentary as detailed > as possible. I really want to take advantage of the inter-linking between > documents. > > Thanks again for all your thoughts! > > > > > On 2015-05-26 17:33, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I also looked at dspace. It has lots of bells and whistles for > professional archivists, especially in the workflow for adding something to > the repository. I am not sure if one can bypass any of the steps. It was > too complicated for my needs. It meets all sorts of standards for archiving > documents, but my project does not need to be standards compliant. Mayan > also has a workflow associated with adding something to the repository, but > it seems to be much more streamlined and appropriate for my archiving > needs. Dspace is also a Java/Tomcat application, so a bit heavier than I > wanted to host for my project. Just my 2 cents based on a fair amount of > research in this area. I am by no means an expert! > > > Mark > > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> Well if you are looking to store a digital library you can consider >> something like D-Space >> >> http://www.dspace.org/ >> >> It is a bit finicky to set up but it does work on revision management and >> actually managing and maintaining your data. do some reading before you >> decide to try it. it is not for the feint of heart. >> >> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Mark Phillips < >> mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote: >> >>> Nathan, >>> >>> I am in the same boat. I have lots of scaned documents (pdfs, tiffs, >>> jpegs, etc.) to tag and make searchable. I tried a wiki and did not have >>> much luck. I stumbled upon mayan edms (http://www.mayan-edms.com/) and >>> it looks pretty good. It is a django based open source project for storing, >>> tagging, and searching documents such as I have. It also does ocr as >>> documents are imported, so the searches cover both meta tags and document >>> content. It keeps a modification history for all documents. It can use >>> SQLite, MySql, postgress, etc. as the db. Django is a pretty simple >>> framework to understand. The only downside is that the community support is >>> sparse and the docs are also sparse. I am just now looking at the code to >>> see how well it is documented. >>> >>> Most of the archival software I looked at are Java based, and I prefer >>> Python because for this small project it uses less resources. >>> >>> Let me know if you plan to use it. Perhaps we could help each other >>> understand the project. >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Stephen Partington < >>> cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> If you know wordpress i would stick with it. additionally there are >>>> plugins for wiki as well. >>>> >>>> https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=wiki >>>> >>>> and knowledge base functionality. (might have to investigate these for >>>> my own use) >>>> >>>> https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?type=term&q=knowledgebase >>>> >>>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Matt Graham >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 2015-05-25 21:08, Nathan England wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I have a project to store a lot of data. Articles, stories, and >>>>>>> encyclopedia type stuff. My first thought was to use a wiki >>>>>>> (wikimedia) as it makes the contents easily searchable, but what >>>>>>> about >>>>>>> other cms systems like wordpress? >>>>>> >>>>>> Wordpress is generally more "centralized", as it puts the most >>>>> recent blog posts up on the main page. Whether you'd use it or a wiki >>>>> really depends on what the users will be doing since there are things wikis >>>>> do better than wordpress. The default wordpress search seems to work OK. >>>>> Writing internal links using wordpress is more difficult than doing that in >>>>> a wiki. >>>>> >>>>> I am not familiar with wikimedia and its maintenance requirements. >>>>>> I can say that WordPress does not require a lot of attention. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> This depends greatly on the users. Setting up a wiki and running it >>>>> is not really difficult or resource-consuming if you don't have many users >>>>> and none of them are actively trying to destroy the site. If you have a >>>>> bunch of active users, you're going to need moderators and handle the >>>>> inevitable flame wars. They come out with a new version of wordpress every >>>>> couple of months, and updating usually doesn't break anything or take a lot >>>>> of time. If you have comments enabled on wordpress, you will need to >>>>> periodically get rid of the spam since there are many people out there >>>>> comment-spamming wordpress sites. >>>>> >>>>> If you are doing something very heavy duty Drupal might be a >>>>>> candidate. >>>>> >>>>> I'd say "avoid drupal unless you know you need it" but that's just MHO. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress >>>>> There is no Darkness in Eternity >>>>> But only Light too dim for us to see. >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >>>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >>>> >>>> Stephen >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> >> -- >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >