At the company I work for, we have an intranet that provides employees with access to a wide variety of documents. These documents fall into several categories and subcategories, and each of these categories have their own web page. Below is one such page (each of the links shown will link to a similar view for that category):
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/9800/dmss.jpg
We currently store each document as a file on the web server and hand-code links to these documents whenever we need to add a new document. This is tedious and error-prone, and it also means we lack any sort of security for accessing these documents. I began looking into document management systems (like KnowledgeTree and OpenKM), however, none of these systems seem to provide a categorized view like in the preview above.
My question is ... does anyone know of any Document Management System that allow for the type of flexibility we currently have with hand-coding links to our documents into various webpages (major and minor , while also providing security, ease of use, and (less important) version control? Or do you think I'd be better off developing such a system from scratch?
If you are trying to categorize the files or folders in the document management system, That's not a difficult task. You only need to access to admin panel to maintain the folders or categorize the folders
In Laserfiche, You can easily categorize your folders regarding the departments and can also be subcategorized them
You should look into Alfresco. It's extremely extensible and provides a lot of ways of accessing the repository.
Note: click the "Developers" tab for the community edition.
My question is ... does anyone know of
any Document Management System that
allow for the type of flexibility we
currently have with hand-coding links
to our documents into various webpages
(major and minor , while also
providing security, ease of use, and
(less important) version control?
Or do you think I'd be better off developing such a system from scratch?
Well there are companies that make a living selling doc management software. Anything you can get off the shelf is going to be a huge time saver, and its going to be better than anything you could reasonably develop by hand.
I've used a few systems:
Sharepoint: although I hear some people don't like it, I didn't either ;)
HyperOffice worked really well for my company of around 150 employees and has all the features you describe.
Current company uses Confluence, I like it :) But its probably one of those tools whose pricetag isn't worth it, especially if you're only using a subset of its features like doc management.
I haven't used it, but one guy I know raves about Alfresco, a free and open source doc management system. I looked at its website, seems simple enough to use.
We also faced a similar problem. However version control was more on our priority and we did look into many solutions in and around. We found Globodox extremely easy to install and use and more important the support team was absolutely fantastic
Try Mayan EDMS, it's Django based, and open source, used it as a base and build the custom features you wish on top of it.
Code location: https://gitlab.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms
Homepage at: http://www.mayan-edms.com
The project is also available via PyPI at: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mayan-edms/
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I'm looking for an online tools where me and my team could collaborate on creating graphs.
The purpose is to bind related words, and generate the adjacency list. For example,
Foo----Bar----Brool
|_____Lol
will generate the following list :
Foo,[Bar]
Bar,[Foo,Brool,Lol]
Brool,[Bar]
Lol,[Bar]
The idea is to allow people to collaborate simply using graph visualization, without diving through the adjacency list directly.
There is one service wchich I believe is going to be designed to allow people to collaborate on creating a graph. It is Graph Commons. Site slogan says:
Collaborative 'network mapping' platform and knowledge base of relationships
Unfortunately at the moment you can only sign up for beta invitation on the website. And from the website it is not clear what the creation/editing mechanism would be.
You could use yfiles library to build a graph editor online, but I've never used it and I don't know if you can manage multimple sessions (hence allowing direct collaboration). But, for instance, if you use graphity, which is an implementation of yfiles flex library, and save a file on dropbox, then each collaborator has access to that file, and you can set up a rudimentary collaboration graph tool. Maybe.
It would be great to have tools like LucidChart or Draw.io, but they don't allow to export a graph file (e.g. graphML from which you can then have an edgelist with some other programs like Gephi). Those tools only allow you to export images and vectors. Draw.io exports xml, but not graphML.
I believe Linkurious let you edit your graph. Again, I've never used it, I don't know if you can manage multiple sessions > collaboration. But I would check it out. Edit: Linkurious enterprise edition (see pricing) is desegned to handle multiple user sessions.
What about building something with vis.js? The library has the ability to «listen for changes in the data» using a DataSet component. Have a look at this example.
I'm sorry if I don't have any real answer, but since your question is very interesting in these days, and the right tools would come out sooner or later (if it doesn't exists), I wanted to share these thoughts. I hope they can help. Please post when you find a solution!
I'm planning to create a site for learning technologies, such as codeproject or codeplex. Can you please suggest to me the different ways to manage huge articles?
Look at a content management system, such as SiteFinity: http://www.sitefinity.com/. There are others, some free. You can find some on codeplex.com.
HTH.
Check out DotNetNuke CMS too >> http://www.dotnetnuke.com/
And here's a very hot list available of ASP.NET CMS systems:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems#Microsoft_ASP.NET_2
Different ways to manage articles while building the entire system yourself. Hmm, ok, let me give it a try... here's the short version.
There are several ways you can "store" your articles (content, data, whatever), and the best way to do so is to use a Database. (SQL Server, MySQL, SQLCE, SQLite, Oracle, the list goes on).
If you're not sold on the idea of a database, you can use any other type of persistent storage that you like. IE: XML, or even flat "TXT" files.
Since you're using ASP.NET you now need to either write your code behind, or some other complied code to access your stored data. You pull it out of the storage and display it on the page/view.
Last but not least, I'd like to give you a suggestion (even though it's not part of your original question). As the other answerers have stated, you should look at a pre-built CMS. If nothing else, to see how it's done (not necessarily to use it as is). My philosophy is quite simple, if you want to be productive in your development, don't bother reinventing the wheel just for the sake of it. If someone else has already build and given away exactly what you need, you should at very least give it a look and use what you can. It will save you piles of time and heartache.
Your question is not vague enough to be closed, but is vague enough that answering all of the nuances could take several thousand lines.
I'm considering which software to use for a blog that I would like to install in a personal home server (synology). Here are my requirements:
Language management: I'll be writing in different languages, and some entries would be translated in different languages, not always the same. Blog readers should be able to select which languages they can/wish to read. For instance, if they chose English, then all entries which have English translation would appear in English, the remaining appearing in whatever language they were written, or not at all.
RSS customization: the blog will broach different subjects. I would like the users to be able to customize a RSS syndication which corresponds to their interests, so that the sigal to noise ration in their RSS readers remains bearable. This should probably work with a "Categoriy" or "Tag" system.
sub-blogs: I would like to have sub-blogs with their own url, which would present a subset of the blog entries. For instance my blog could deal with politics, sports, and myLife, and I could produce the following blog urls: blog.mydomain.tld (shows everything), opinions.mydomain.tld (shows only the politics related posts), sports.mydomain.tld (all entries dedicated to sports). I would also like to theme differently those sub-blogs (i.e. a ball picture for sports.mydomain.tld, etc).
modular privacy: my intended audience is heterogeneous (family, sets of friends, the internet), and I would like to be able to limit access to certain entries to different subsets of users. To me, the most obvious way to do this would be to define users with a login and password. I would then pool them into groups, and define for each entry if it is private, and if so which groups can read it. I do not necessarily want to share the same things between my neighbors and my school friends.
That also brings the issue of RSS syndication: either each user would have its how RSS thread, or then RSS could be category specific and the private entries would appear without content. Perhaps other possibilities exist.
These set of features are quite specific. I was thinking of using a blog software to implement them, but perhaps I'm thinking this wrong and I should use a CMS or even a framework?
Another point is that this is done for "fun", and although I can program (python, etc), this is not my day job, so it should not require expert level skills or full time investment to implement. A solution which involves me developing a whole new blog application is not adapted to my constraints.
EDIT
OpenID: I like the Stack Overflow login system (check this screen capture of it), because most readers already have an OpenID, and in any case do not need to create a specific one for my blog. The system I would use should be capable of using the OpenID method of authentication
I don't know what is the best translation software around.
But I only use a Babylon Software as an Online Translator too.
You can find it at http://babylon.depapaz.com
Till now, I only use this program for my online translation software.
And I think is good enough as a Translation Software.
i want to create automated web based book publication system.
My company is publishing reports which is written in words. & there is lots of hassel on formatting word document.
So we want to develop system where different users can loged into system then create different chapters & different parts within that chapters.
Can anyone suggest any opensource project or any guidelines to achieve the things mentioned above.
Some sort of wiki seems like the way to go in my opinion, you could set it up so users could only edit their own stuff pretty easily. There are some example ASP.NET wikis and other examples that might interest you on this page.
I'm curious about website scraping (i.e. how it's done etc..), specifically that I'd like to write a script to perform the task for the site Hype Machine.
I'm actually a Software Engineering Undergraduate (4th year) however we don't really cover any web programming so my understanding of Javascript/RESTFul API/All things Web are pretty limited as we're mainly focused around theory and client side applications.
Any help or directions greatly appreciated.
The first thing to look for is whether the site already offers some sort of structured data, or if you need to parse through the HTML yourself. Looks like there is an RSS feed of latest songs. If that's what you're looking for, it would be good to start there.
You can use a scripting language to download the feed and parse it. I use python, but you could pick a different scripting language if you like. Here's some docs on how you might download a url in python and parse XML in python.
Another thing to be conscious of when you write a program that downloads a site or RSS feed is how often your scraping script runs. If you have it run constantly so that you'll get the new data the second it becomes available, you'll put a lot of load on the site, and there's a good chance they'll block you. Try not to run your script more often than you need to.
You may want to check the following books:
"Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers: A Guide to Developing Internet Agents with PHP/CURL"
http://www.amazon.com/Webbots-Spiders-Screen-Scrapers-Developing/dp/1593271204
"HTTP Programming Recipes for C# Bots"
http://www.amazon.com/HTTP-Programming-Recipes-C-Bots/dp/0977320677
"HTTP Programming Recipes for Java Bots"
http://www.amazon.com/HTTP-Programming-Recipes-Java-Bots/dp/0977320669
I believe that the most important thing you must analyze is which kind of information do you want to extract. If you want to extract entire websites like google does probably your best option is to analyze tools like nutch from Apache.org or flaptor solution http://ww.hounder.org If you need to extract particular areas on unstructured data documents - websites, docs, pdf - probably you can extend nutch plugins to fit particular needs. nutch.apache.org
On the other hand if you need to extract particular text or clipping areas of a website where you set rules using DOM of the page probably what you need to check is more related to tools like mozenda.com. with those tools you will be able to set up extraction rules in order to scrap particular information on a website. You must take into consideration that any change on a webpage will give you an error on your robot.
Finally, If you are planning to develop a website using information sources you could purchase information from companies such as spinn3r.com were they sell particular niches of information ready to be consume. You will be able to save lots of money on infrastructure.
hope it helps!.
sebastian.
Python has the feedparser module, located at feedparser.org that actually handles RSS in its various flavours and ATOM in its various flavours. No reason to reinvent the wheel.