Firstly, thanks for creating what looks like a very useful system. I can see many uses for it here, but initially we're hoping to try it out for: * maintaining sets of documents for committee meetings (agendas, minutes and submitted papers, which may come as electronic or paper documents scanned in) * a digital archive of electronic files with metadata for searching and indexing.
However, while I would install/maintain the system, I would not be the main user of it. The documentation is generally good for installing and configuring, but is there any documentation intended for the end user, as to what the workflow is? i.e., I just feel I'm not understanding the process of creating metadata, metadata sets, indexes, folders etc. What order should these be done, and before or after importing files? Are there any other guides on how to actually use the system day-to-day? I'm happy to help to create such a guide if necessary based on our experiences, but would first need to figure it out! As for the installation documents - like I say these were generally good, there were some areas where things were maybe missing or maybe not up-to-date, and only searching on the google groups found some information that with hindsight was obvious but that I'd clearly missed. In particular (and this is intended as constructive, not negative): The 'requirements' page doesn't make any note that LibreOffice is required, but it seems to be in order to convert Office files. Pretty obvious now I look back, but as the page lists other software such as Tesseract, ImageMagick and so on as being required/optional, perhaps it needs to list it? No mention in the install step-by-step guide on creating the document-storage folder, or setting permissions on either that or on image-cache so that the www-data (for debian/ubuntu) user that apache runs as can write to those folders. Also still having some issues that I've not been able to resolve but will create another post on that! Perhaps the fabric installer does take care of these, but I was following the step-by-step instructions? Again, please don't anyone take these comments as critical - the intent is to help by suggesting improvements or omissions. Cheers, Steve. --
