On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, J. Antas wrote: > Nuno Rua wrote: > > > I am responsible for a medium-size organization that needs to find a DB > > solution for archiving its many documents (around 40000, most of them > > already in electronic media). > > This is interesting. And to what type of documents where you refering to?
J and Nuno, The OIO system (http://www.TxOutcome.Org) is a web-enabled "DB solution" (PostgreSQL or Oracle DB) that can be used to manage documents. > > We need to be able to classify the documents according to several > > attributes (e.g. vendor number, hospital number, equipment series, > > service, location, description, ...), and make searches based on those > > attributes. The benefits of using OIO to manage your documents is that you can define your very own list of attributes to describe your documents. In fact, you can even create several different lists of attributes to define different types of documents. It works like this: 1) make an OIO form that contains your list of document-description attributes. For example, Question #1: Vendor number Question #2: Hospital number Question #3: Equipment series Question #4: Service Question #5: Location Question #6: Description etc ... Last Question: Document (upload document here) This takes approximately 1 minute per question. The OIO software makes all the database tables for you. 2) At run-time, simply complete the form (including uploading the document) to store documents into your Documents.OIO system. > So, it seems that besides a Document Management Systems (DMS) you will > be needing some kind of knowledge processor to also classify them. 3) Bulk uploads using an automated form-filler that contains document-classification algorithm is certainly possible. > > Ability to define security of accesses is, naturally, required. ok. > That is important in healthcare and, in special, with personal clinical > documentation. Yes, that's why we have been working on the OIO project for the past 5 years. :-) > > Does any of you know if your organizations have similar tools ? Do you > > recommend them ? ... > Most of the applications were proprietary (Canon and Siemens). The important issue is not just proprietary vs. open-source. I think the ability to define our own list of attributes easily via a web-browser interface is even more important. Best regards, Andrew --- Andrew P. Ho, M.D. OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes www.TxOutcome.Org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Care2002-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers
