Jeremy Kerwin wrote:
> I currently work with 3 other engineers and we all have a lot of notes in word
> format that we've collected.
>
> I want to be able to place these into a web based document store so we can all
> access them whenever we feel like.
> ...
> I'd also like to add a search facility.
If you want to add to them over time, a good idea would be to set up a wiki web.
Basically, a wiki web is a collaborative web space where all authorised people can
edit the docs in a very simple way. If you want to edit a page you're looking at, you
just press the "edit" link at the bottom and an edit form comes up - you can put in
straight text rather than html to aid in editability (eg blank line = new para, " *"
= list item, etc). One thing that's really nice is that it's really easy to start off
a new document linked to another one - something that you always want to do when
you've got a collaborative webspace (basically you just put percent signs around the
text of the link and that becomes the name of the new document which you can populate
when you get around to it).
There are quite a few wiki implementations out there (some a set of perl scripts, some
using PHP, etc). They usually support change tracking (optionally using RCS), search,
page classification, etc. It's dead simple stuff but very effective.
I use it where I work and I really like it as an easy way to keep track of things when
you've got a group of people working on something.
Look on freshmeat for some wiki implementations. For an idea of what one looks like,
look at http://www.object-arts.com/wiki/html/Dolphin/FrontPage.htm
Bill
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