> I would like to employ a system to store and maintain metadata about > computer files. It is clear to me that plain old file system > hierarchies have serious shortcomings when you must consider long term > retrievability. I am looking for a glorified "card catalog" system. > I've read about a bunch of content management systems in sourceforge, > but they mostly sound like web specific tools (Lenya?). I need to > manage HTML as well as spreadsheets, a variety of text documents, and > engineering models.
> The software I have in mind should manage files better than a hierarchy > and it's got to manage better than arbitrary search and index. It > should use the filesystem that the host computer system uses (UFS, > OpenAFS). It should make a user's life better, especially when long > term maintenance and retrievel are considered. > What are the leading open source applications for this sort of card > catalog software? What is the geek-speak for this sort of software? Alfresco is a J2EE based document management software using Tomcat as the application server and MySQL as the database. It supports document versioning and accepts documents (spreadsheets, word, presentations) in OpenOffice format -not sure about engineering models. See http://alfresco.org for more information. Hope it helps. Bahman _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"