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 <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
Well if you are looking to store a digital library you can consider something like D-SpaceIt 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:
MarkLet me know if you plan to use it. Perhaps we could help each other understand the project.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.
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.and knowledge base functionality. (might have to investigate these for my own use)--
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org> wrote:
On 2015-05-25 21:08, Nathan England wrote: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 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?
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 aI'd say "avoid drupal unless you know you need it" but that's just MHO.
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