Quoth Ben-Nes Michael:
> I wonder what is the best way to establish document archive.
>
> I mean: taking fax or snail mail, scan it and save it to the server.
You will find that the greatest effort is NOT the storage method (which
seems top be what you are talking about below), but the data entry
effort one one hand and the categorisation on the other.
Thus, if you have a fax about sex widgets as well as a voice recording
of widgets used in sex (s/widgets/YOUR_FAVOURITE_THINGY/g), how would
you (1) transcode - enter the data into the storage medium (e.g.
scanning, transcript, etc), (2) categorise data in a meaningful way
(e.g. by usage categories, by purpose categories, by both, etc).
Worse, there are things which are very hard to categorise and/or
transcode - e.g. films, music, posters, humour, poetry, etc.
I suggest reading up on DDS (Dewey Decimal System) - a method of
knowledge categorisation. It is not enough, but it is a start.
Cheerio,
Marc
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