Comment Old idea - new platform (Score 2, Insightful) 742
"it is a layer between the hierarchical file system (HFS) and the user, which provides a radically new way to store and retrieve documents"
The only things that are radically new is that a) it is open source b) it is aimed at individuals.
Commercial EDMS (Electronic Document Management Systems) vendors have been doing this for years - companies like Documentum and Filenet. Like newdocms, they combine the filesystem and a database of attributes for file storage and retrieveal. Documentum itself has gotten very sophisticated; it can read the text of the document and, using an XML taxononmy of your choice, auto-file the document in the appropriate place. Likewise searches can be performed on both user-supplied attributes, computer-generated taxonomic values, or the text of the document itself. Companies like pharmaceutical manufacturers, with millions of complex documents, simply couldn't function without it. And it works with multimedia files as well, actually reading the close-captioning on movie clips to perform it's auto-tagging and auto-filing operations.
That said, it is a great accomplishment, and a welcome addition to this KDE user. While I have worked with EDMS systems off and on for the past 5 years, I could never actually afford one myself, and none of the current EDMS vendors that I'm aware of support Linux.
As work begins on version 1.1, I suggest taking a look at the features available with the commercial EDMS products for ideas - especially for things they haven't thought of!
Good work!
The only things that are radically new is that a) it is open source b) it is aimed at individuals.
Commercial EDMS (Electronic Document Management Systems) vendors have been doing this for years - companies like Documentum and Filenet. Like newdocms, they combine the filesystem and a database of attributes for file storage and retrieveal. Documentum itself has gotten very sophisticated; it can read the text of the document and, using an XML taxononmy of your choice, auto-file the document in the appropriate place. Likewise searches can be performed on both user-supplied attributes, computer-generated taxonomic values, or the text of the document itself. Companies like pharmaceutical manufacturers, with millions of complex documents, simply couldn't function without it. And it works with multimedia files as well, actually reading the close-captioning on movie clips to perform it's auto-tagging and auto-filing operations.
That said, it is a great accomplishment, and a welcome addition to this KDE user. While I have worked with EDMS systems off and on for the past 5 years, I could never actually afford one myself, and none of the current EDMS vendors that I'm aware of support Linux.
As work begins on version 1.1, I suggest taking a look at the features available with the commercial EDMS products for ideas - especially for things they haven't thought of!
Good work!
