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-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 <mhgraham@crow202.org>
>>> 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.
>>>>
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