Intranet Solution for Knowledge Management

[Peter Bengtsson]

With TextIndexNG3 you get a very good index on that kind of content and 
if you make the documents available as objects in Zope, TextIndexNG3 can 
take care of opening up things like .doc and .pdf and index its content.

However, if you make the documents objects by proxy of sorts (i.e. 
metadata such as filename in Zope and binary payload on filesystem) I 
don't know what happens if the file is updated externally without Zope 
being notified to reindex it.

I'd say that what it depends on is how important it is (how up-to-date) 
and if you've got an existing way of linking to the documents on the 
drive from the intranet.

My company has started looking at writing a custom indexing of our code 
and documents in Sphinx (very fast and competant indexing server) but 
unfortunately we never had time to complete it.

Peter


Nynke Kruiderink wrote:
> Hello Shilpa and all,
> 
> We are about to release our new intranet in plone 2.5 and I’m looking
> forward to it.
> 
> Our employees tend to travel a lot, therefore communication between
> employees is also a challenge for us. We are hoping that with the
> implementation of team knowledge sharing blogs, and organizational news
> items and rss feeds, that we will improve the overall communication and
> learning within our organisation. We will also be providing wiki pages so
> that staff can easily co-create the intranet and/or collaborate online in
> content creation related to their work. 
> 
> What I have not worked out in detail is the document management side of the
> story. We have a network drive, which is just a wonderful example of chaos
> most of the time. It’s great, and it has its worth, only what we need is a
> single platform where we can find all final versions of documents, and a
> single platform where we can conduct a single search for information.
> Therefore I’d like the intranet to become our document management system for
> final documents. 
> 
> Any suggestions as to what products add-ons I should be testing for this
> purpose?
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help!
> 
> Nynke
> 

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