Have you looked at TiddlySpace? You could have a different space for each language, and include them together in other spaces.
I'm no expert, but I think that extracting and editing PDF metadata with TW will be difficult. (I think tiddlytools has a plugin for importing plain text into tiddlers, so if you got your PDFs into plain text it could be an option to import them into TWs then import those into TiddlySpace) Also I have found mendeley[1] good for reading PDFs. It also renames them for you, and copies them into a file. You can sort / search them and annotate them too. Alex http://www.mendeley.com/ On 26 July 2010 14:19, Kanyimbe <kanyi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm struggling to create a system that allows you to create enriched > directories of publications that work online and offline. Much of the > filtering and searching that I can do online with PHP, etc. isn't an > option for a folder full of publications on someone's thumb drive. So > I thought using TiddlyWiki might provide an option. > > The system should be able to do the following: > > 1. Read and display the contents of a directory in a TiddlyWiki. > 2. Extract metadata from each document and display it with the > document name and link. > 3. Allow grouping of publications by tags. > 4. Allow searching. > > Originally i thought you should be able to have a TiddlyWiki that > loaded each document's metadata into a separate tiddler every time you > opened it. But it would also be nice to be able to add metadata to a > document and then save it back to the metadata of the file. > > Example: > > In Mozambique we have publications for 12 different langauges. They > are mostly PDFs. They have keywords like: literacy, linguistics, > Scripture, and development. Since new publications appear and old ones > are changed, it would be nice to have a tiddlywiki that just sits in > each of the 12 language directories and updates itself every time you > open it. > > We want to share these pubications online but also on a CD-ROM or by > copying a folder to someone's thumb drive. > > Any ideas on how or whether this might work would be VERY appreciated. > > Background on this idea can be found here: > http://kanyimbe.posterous.com/ubiqivos-ubiquitous-archives-for-vernacular-p > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To post to this group, send email to tiddlyw...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<tiddlywiki%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlyw...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
