Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:30:39 -0700 From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Managing/Cataloging Files Message-ID: <46CA6A6F.3070307@highperformance.net>
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I would like to employ a system to store and maintain metadata about computer files. It is clear to me that plain old file system hierarchies have serious shortcomings when you must consider long term retrievability. I am looking for a glorified "card catalog" system. I've read about a bunch of content management systems in sourceforge, but they mostly sound like web specific tools (Lenya?). I need to manage HTML as well as spreadsheets, a variety of text documents, and engineering models. The software I have in mind should manage files better than a hierarchy and it's got to manage better than arbitrary search and index. It should use the filesystem that the host computer system uses (UFS, OpenAFS). It should make a user's life better, especially when long term maintenance and retrievel are considered. What are the leading open source applications for this sort of card catalog software? What is the geek-speak for this sort of software? Thanks, Jason C. Wells
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