Intranet Solution for Knowledge Management

[David Bain]

Just looking a Sphinx, the concept certainly looks nice.

On Jan 22, 2008 12:00 PM, Peter Bengtsson <peter at fry-it.com> wrote:

> 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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