On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:05:11AM +0200, Gil Freund wrote:
> Lior Kaplan wrote:
> 
> >Maybe http://subversion.tigris.org/ ?
> 
> Looks really nice, but is a source code management system (in general) 
> as a document management system? Considering that many documents (MS 
> Office files, PDF and Images) are in binary format, wouldn't that create 
> an unnecessary load in diffing files?
> 
> Also, CVS (and subversion) seem very good at conflict handling. While 
> this would be a real neat function of a document management system, I 
> doubt that a useful OSS solution exists that can handle propriety binary 
> formats (such as word).
> 
> We could, for the sake of argument, use RTF, but this format is bloated, 
> and is only slightly more open then word DOCs.
> 

If you are going in that direction then openoffice uses xml which is
completely open. I don't know what it does with images and such but if
you want to optimize things you could probably link to images instead
of embed them.

> >
> >I'm not sure it answers all you requests.
> >
> >You may also want to check this: http://horde.org/chora/
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Lior Kaplan
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >http://www.Guides.co.il
> >
> >Come to write at the forums: http://www.guides.co.il/forums
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Gil Freund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "Yishay Mor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Linux-IL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:25 PM
> >Subject: Re: Document managment and workflow
> >
> >
> >
> >>Yishay Mor wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>wow. not that I have any ideas (other than CVS), but just out of
> >>>curiosity, what is this for?
> >>
> >>CVS would be nice if I could get people to use normal editors with
> >>normal formats (read *ML)
> >>
> >>Mainly for myself, and some startups I work with.
> >>
> >>
> >>>If you don't find anything existing, I would consider developing it over
> >>>Zope / Plone.
> >>
> >>Thats content management. Different ballgame.
> >>
> >>>- Yishay
> >>>
> >>>Gil Freund wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>>I am looking for the following type of system (or components thereof)
> >>>>to run on a Linux or BSD server:
> >>>>
> >>>>1. Document library
> >>>>   a. check in / check out
> >>>>   b. versions
> >>>>   c. bibliographic data import from sources such as pubmed
> >>>>2. Workflow
> >>>>   a. document revision cycle
> >>>>   b. LDAP user identification / authentication
> >>>>
> >>>>Preferably on Apache/PHP/MySQL.
> >>>>
> >>>>Pointers to any system of this type (or part thereof) welcome.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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