{"id":2165,"date":"2010-02-01T19:53:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T03:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2010-02-01T19:53:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T03:53:18","slug":"multimedia-document-management-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/multimedia-document-management-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Multimedia Document Management System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone recently updated a link in the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=Mirrored_Files\">MultimediaWiki page for mirrored documents<\/a>. Naturally, that doesn&#8217;t automatically update the mirrored copy @ multimedia.cx (having me poll the page history and manually update the mirrored copy hardly counts as an automated process). I suddenly thought that it would be desirable to have a content management system that allows authorized users to upload and organize documents, particularly PDF documents which comprise many of these mirrored documents. Sort of a&#8230; document management system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Document_management_system\">&#8220;Document Management System.&#8221;<\/a> Sounds enterprise-y. Here&#8217;s what I want:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Free, open source solution in which I do not have to modify a single line of code<\/li>\n<li>Allows me to create a list of users who have permissions to upload or delete PDF documents<\/li>\n<li>Allows authorized users to upload or delete PDF documents<\/li>\n<li>Manages at least a minimum of metadata<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The key thing here is to allow authenticated users to upload and manage these mirrored documents. I know many will say, &#8220;Drupal\/WordPress\/MyFaveCMS can be coerced to do just that!&#8221; And I don&#8217;t dispute any such claims. It&#8217;s also true that nearly any program you need to write can be written in straight C, eschewing any higher level languages. I was just hoping for a more turnkey solution that doesn&#8217;t require me to learn a lot or do my own coding or customization.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the problem here is that no one sets out to just write such a simple CMS. A CMS might start out simple but eventually grows into the next Drupal. I probably need to come to terms with that fact that there is no prepackaged solution that exactly fits this simple need without at least some tinkering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there such a thing as a simple document management system?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}