On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 10:50:04 PM UTC+5:30, Hendrik Boom wrote: > What free software is there in the way of organizing lots of documents? > > To be more precise, the ones I *need* to organize are the files on hard > drives, though if I could include documents I have elsewhere (bookshelves > and photocopy files) I wouldn't mind. They are text documents in a > variety of file formats and languages, source code for current and > obsolete systems, jpeg images, film clips, drawings, SVG files, files, > object code, shared libraries, fragments of drafts of books, ragged > software documentation, works in progress ... > > And I'm not looking for one single solution that will do everything I'd > like. Indeed, I suspect that's impossible without building an entirely > new OS. Which I'm not likely to find off the shelf, nor am I likely to > be able to do it myself in the few decades I may have left in my life. > And even if it were feasible, there's probably a lot of research to be > done before we even know what such a thing should actually do. > > Of course the files are already semi-organized in directories. But I > haven't yet managed to find a suitable collection of directory names. > Hierarchical classification isn't ideal
Bullseye! As someone quipped: Why is google able to find things on the www better than I am able to find in my drive? In one word (rather two) hierarchical filesystems Have you seen recoll http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ > Of course the taxonomists would advise setting up a controlled vocabulary > of tags and attaching tags to the various files. I'd end up with > triples store or some other database describing files. > > But how to identify the files being tagged? A file-system pathname isn't > enough. Files get moved, and sometimes entire directory trees full of > files get moved from one place to another for various pragmatic reasons. > And a hashcode isn't enough. files get edited, upgraded, recompiled, > reformatted, converted from JIS code to UTF-8, and so forth. Images get > cropped and colour-corrected. And under these changes they should keep > their assigned classification tags. > > Now a number of file formats can accommodate metadata. And some software > that manipulates files can preserve metadata and even allow user editing > of the metadata. But more doesn't. > > Much of it could perhaps be done by auttomatic content analysis. Other > material may require labour-intensive manual classification. > > No I don't expect to see any off-the-shelf solution for all of this. > > But does anyone have ideas as to how to accomplish even some of this? > Even poorly? > > Does anyone know of relevant practical tools? Or have ideas towards > tools that *should* exist but currently don't? > > I'm ready to experiment. > > -- hendrik > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/md4q33$ib1$1...@ger.gmane.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5f2453e3-c727-4d47-9be0-cc44e52c5...@googlegroups.com