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Please add CEP software package
This page looks good. For our readers, I'm the one who praised Teleport Pro's ease of use. I'm happy to answer questions about it.
I think you should add Capturing Electronic Publications (CEP), which was originally developed for the Illinois State Library under an IMLS grant, and is now used by seven states, including Alaska. It's a free product, though some linux savvy is recommended. It combines the wget program with other open source components to provide a good web site gathering and archiving tool. I especially appreciate its ability to generate e-mail reports of new files added to a site since the last spidering.
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"And besides all that, what we need is a decentralized, distributed system of depositing electronic files to local libraries willing to host them." -- Daniel Cornwall, tipping his hat to Cato the Elder for the original quote.
It's added. Keep those suggestions coming
Thanks for the suggestions Daniel. It's added. Keep 'em coming folks!
Collecting and managing information. Need Open Source tools
I have lots of interests. I gather lot of information from the web, print media, and am on many mailing lists plus my friends send links, scanned pages etc.
I want to store the information on my PC in an orderly fashion i.e.
(a) Categorisation by subject, date, origin, location ....
(b) Human created key words for each item.
(c) Searching
(d) Running a tool to find patterns.
(e) letting people access specific areas / pages only.
Are their any Open Source tools available to do so? Possibly web based so that I can ask friends to do part of the work themselves.
I'll be grateful.
Oh, and I use Linux for everything :-)
Regards
Tools are getting there
I think that tools/Web apps are getting to the point that you're thinking about. The thing is to collate lots of web2.0 tools into a site/blog in order to collect/search/display/share content of interest (much like a library!).
Here at FGI, we're using Drupal, an open-source content management system, that allows us to blog, upload documents/images, create static webpages, make all content full-text searchable (including the docs/pdfs etc that we upload into the database) and has LOTS of other modules that could be useful for integrating systems/apps/data. We're also integrating Del.icio.us into the site (see the left column) which allows us to collect interesting Web sites and resources and, with a a little piece of javascript, dynamically display the tags on the site. We could do the same thing with our flickr account if we had lots of images of interest, or with the many google mapping remixes that are out there.
Here are a couple of others off the top of my head that may help:
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