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Creating a Document Repository..

chewie — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:28:31 GMT

Ok, I'm new, but I've searched through the Wiki, and these forums, and I'm just not finding the info I need..so here goes.I've just installed Alfresco Labs 3.0 and here is what I'm looking to do:- We've got a large # of image samples and they are scattered all over a storage server. We have duplica

Re: Creating a Document Repository..

chewie — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:30:42 GMT

Anybody?

I'm looking at the alfresco-share feature, but in all honesty, this platform reeks of Sharepoint, which I know isn't going to fit our needs.
I'd need to be able to parse an entire server hard drive, pull the files and manage them from a central location versus adding them manually one at a time..thoughts?

Re: Creating a Document Repository..

mrogers — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:18:14 GMT

Your first move will be to copy in your files via CIFS or ftp and make Alfresco the "central location."

You can use Alfresco like a shared network folder and copy and move your files around.

Then once you have done this you can bring in the other document management features as and when you need them. You will probably want to think about what meta-data to store with each image. And whether there needs to be any security or workflow around your images.

You may also be interested in the image management module for alfresco. http://www.alfresco.com/products/solutions/ecm/im/Alfresco_Image_Management_0208.pdf

As for your duplicate detection will you do this manually or programatically? How do you intend to say that two copies of a documents are equal?

Re: Creating a Document Repository..

chewie — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:16:22 GMT

Thanks for the feedback but do you have any 'how-tos'?
My problem is despite all my searching i'm not finding the right documents on how to set this monster up.

As for determining duplicate files, thats 50% human and 50% machine. There are tools to compare images out there that can tell you if something is the 'same' and on top of that you'd just throw it into some sort of queue for manual review later before deletion.

Re: Creating a Document Repository..

chewie — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:08:54 GMT

Anyone?????