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July 11, 2006

Document management

So Jerry posed the question the other day about developing a system that can do for documents, what flickr has done for photos. I guess he wants something primarily to be used within an intranet that can make it easy for everyone to just tag different documents, articles, photos, spreadsheets, presentations, etc.

My initial thought was to see if someone can develop a version of digg or del.icio.us for internal networks, where you would call up the documents through a web interface and then tag them as bookmarks.

The main hurdle would be for the Office documents. I kind of remember it being possible to open a Word, Excel, or Powerpoint document in a webpage, but not sure what that requires.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Posted by mchiu at July 11, 2006 10:40 AM

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We have document management product named iKE that is similar to what you describe. While it doesn't exactly allow tagging like digg or del.icio.us would, it does allow a summary, subject, author, keywords and notes property fields which can be added and that are all indexed and searchable.

Posted by: bob at July 11, 2006 02:37 PM

Hey Mikio,

Just ran into this post.

Last year, I was building a doc. mgmt. system and I couldn't find a free/open source viewer that could read/write MS documents dynamically.

You can check out this open source SW. It's a search engine that has a tag library. It could index microsoft office related documents as well. Since it's open source, you could customize it for your needs:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/regain

You could send the document to a web reader that parses the MS documents and displays them as html - if you wish. There's a bunch of free CGI scripts online that do that.

If you need some programming help - you could easily outsource it - check out http://rentacoder.com

Posted by: Charles Amith at August 12, 2006 02:11 PM

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