Intranet Solution for Knowledge Management

[Peter Bengtsson]

If you "proxy files" on the filesystem via Zope, the binary content is 
NOT put into ZODB. Only metadata. And the semi-binary content of files 
like .doc and .pdf is only stored in the Catalog index which is very 
efficient.

Personally, I think Sphinx (my research on this sadly not written up 
formally) is the way forward if you have LOTS of documents and require 
QUICK searches and can LIVE WITH having a separate search in Zope/Plone*.

Sphinx has Python bindings but no "Zope/Plone bindings" that I'm aware of.

(* You could have a single search form input but merge the results from 
searching zope/plone AND an external database)

David Bain wrote:
> The issue of storing large amounts of data in the zodb, particulary 
> large binary files has been a concern, with the addition of blob to the 
> zodb would this become a non-issue?
> Should someone with Nynke's use case be even thinking about storing his 
> documents directly in the ZODB?
> 
> On Jan 22, 2008 11:18 AM, Peter Bengtsson <peter at fry-it.com 
> <mailto:peter at fry-it.com>> wrote:
> 
>     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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