Hi all,
Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:24:52 -0700 (PDT), Bill Tillman<[email protected]>
wrote:
But put me
down for a vote on this method using simple text files and awk.
It JUST WORKS - that's the goal. It can be developed and configured
very fast, can easily be extended (or limited), and data is stored
in a STANDARD (!!!) format which allows you to do ANYTHING with
it. You can even provide a web-driven interface for the database,
even that is possible.
I use for my work a solution matching Polytopon's suggestion, it sounds
very to natural to the UNIX user in me :) I am a scientist and have to
daily deal with an increasing amount of electronic papers, made
available in PDF, DJVU, PostScript or even Tiff. I organised my library
so that each document get its own directory. Each directory then
contains the document file(s) per itself and meta information, stored
along in files whose names are fixed (for instance +INDEX for general
information, +BIBTEX for BibTeX fata, etc.).
I only need a couple of hours to write a program easing the addition of
a document to the library and another one generating a HTML index out of
the meta informations, and while my system is far from perfect, it
exists, and helps me every day.
I also had to help colleagues in various ways with their computer,
sometimes giving them some (seemingly) very unfriendly scripts I wrote.
My experience with this, is that, provided I show these people how it
works and supervise their first steps with the program, they can
actually use it and like it, despite the fact that the experience
offered by the program is at first not as nice to them as the one
offered by a GUI.
However, being a scientist, I would not consider my working environment
as `standard', whatever it means!
We have a Windows based system at my current job which uses
FileMaker Pro. It's amazing what we can do with this and it's
like having a gigantic electronic filing cabinet.
Oh, the paperless office... an utopia - at least in Germany,
bureaucracy's home country. :-)
I thought France was that :) Rules are sometimes changing so often that
administrative staff does not always has time to catch up them all!
Nevertheless all of this bureaucracy is sometimes very useful too---but
it is always a bit annoying ;)
Cheers,
Michael
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