Thanks, Alex. I'll check out TiddlySpace. The ShowLocalDirectory plugin at least shows the contents of the directory. It displays size and modified, if it were able to pull Author/Artist and Keywords/Comments from mp3s and PDFs we'd be on our way.
On 27 July, 09:02, Alex Hough <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you looked at TiddlySpace? > You could have a different space for each language, and include them > together in other spaces. > > I'm no expert, but I think that extracting and editing PDF metadata with TW > will be difficult. > (I think tiddlytools has a plugin for importing plain text into tiddlers, so > if you got your PDFs into plain text it could be an option to import them > into TWs then import those into TiddlySpace) > > Also I have found mendeley[1] good for reading PDFs. It also renames them > for you, and copies them into a file. You can sort / search them and > annotate them too. > > Alexhttp://www.mendeley.com/ > > On 26 July 2010 14:19, Kanyimbe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm struggling to create a system that allows you to create enriched > > directories of publications that work online and offline. Much of the > > filtering and searching that I can do online with PHP, etc. isn't an > > option for a folder full of publications on someone's thumb drive. So > > I thought using TiddlyWiki might provide an option. > > > The system should be able to do the following: > > > 1. Read and display the contents of a directory in a TiddlyWiki. > > 2. Extract metadata from each document and display it with the > > document name and link. > > 3. Allow grouping of publications by tags. > > 4. Allow searching. > > > Originally i thought you should be able to have a TiddlyWiki that > > loaded each document's metadata into a separate tiddler every time you > > opened it. But it would also be nice to be able to add metadata to a > > document and then save it back to the metadata of the file. > > > Example: > > > In Mozambique we have publications for 12 different langauges. They > > are mostly PDFs. They have keywords like: literacy, linguistics, > > Scripture, and development. Since new publications appear and old ones > > are changed, it would be nice to have a tiddlywiki that just sits in > > each of the 12 language directories and updates itself every time you > > open it. > > > We want to share these pubications online but also on a CD-ROM or by > > copying a folder to someone's thumb drive. > > > Any ideas on how or whether this might work would be VERY appreciated. > > > Background on this idea can be found here: > >http://kanyimbe.posterous.com/ubiqivos-ubiquitous-archives-for-vernac... > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "TiddlyWiki" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<tiddlywiki%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
