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On Saturday 12 November 2005 16:33, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> The wife has finally put her foot down and said I have to clean up the |
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> mess that inhabits my office which occupies our second bedroom. |
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I probably would tell you the same thing sadly ;P |
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> A wiki is one of the first things to come to mind. I'm contemplating |
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> setting a wiki up on my trusty little firewall/email/squid/dns.... |
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> server, scanning the clipping, creating an entry in the wiki, placing, |
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> say, the first para of the clipping in the wiki page, maybe via OCR |
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> software, and then attaching the scanned image to the page. This way I |
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> can search the wiki looking for stuff, the first paragraph of the |
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> article will probably tell me if its the page I'm after and if so, look |
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> at the scanned image for the full article. |
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Yes, I'd recommend tikiwiki for that, as I know they have a file gallery, |
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which pretty much does what you've suggested. I also noticed that tikiwiki |
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is generally really easy to setup. |
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> Does this sound like a suitable use for a wiki or am I wasting my time |
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> and there are more "application specific" packages out there that would |
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> suit my needs better? Anyone done anything like this before? |
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> Any thoughts greatly appreciated, |
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> Andrew |
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My 2 Cents |
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Chris White |
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