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.
Some guys get all the right startups! All the startups I was ever involved with thought I was the doc mgmt system (as in "dude, you got a copy of that presentation we gave the board last september?")
I only wish....
The path usually taken is exactly as you described above. At some point the technological savvy CxO (the one that reads Dudi Goldman and knows all the latest technological advances), whats the above system, and I have to listen to a leacture on the great advances the company would have if we only had Exchange and SharePoint....
If you don't find anything existing, I would consider developing it over Zope / Plone.
Thats content management. Different ballgame.
Not exactly. Zope is an application server for Python, is provides persistence, authentication, workflow and other such services. Plone is an web-presentation layer above it. Somewhat like JSP and EJB in the Java world. They probably provide all the services you need for a doc mgmt system, but you still need the actual "product" that does it. Not a bad idea for an OS project. I would check if someone's already thought of it.
As a Q&D alternative, I've used JSPWiki (.org). Its a wiki (surprise), very easy to customize, has several options of versioning, and handles attachments. So, I would set up a Wiki page for every tracked file, and add the actual file as an attachment. The system saves all attachments with the same name as versions, with a nice version table. Locking and workflow need to be handled by convention, e.g., edit the hosting wiki page & write the document status.
I will look into it, but I still feel that the wiki concept is more a CMS or forum tool - more to the side of Knowlage Managment. It requires a mind set shift. While I can see myself use it, I don't see my users taking the time warm to it.
They are still out to get me for making them use Mozilla as a web and mail client.
Several project management packages boast a doc mgmt facility. Haven't tried any yet:
http://www.tutos.org/homepage/file.html
I use it for our CRM. Takes time to get used to it, very German :), but very usafull and in my book, the best Project, Contact and Issue managment package.
http://netoffice.sourceforge.net/index.html http://www.dotproject.net/index.php
Will look into those
best,
- Yishay
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