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Posted by Daly de Gagne
Mar 30, 2007 at 01:54 PM
Dominik, this is a program we don’t talk about, and that there doesn’t seem to be much buzz about on the web. I have looked at it a few times, have it on my system (CRIMP, of course), but have wondered about its overall value.
I am curious to know why you recommend it as opposed to other programs? Is it because of the server option?
Thanks.
Daly
Dominik Holenstein wrote:
>JJ
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>Try General Knowledge Base including the Server
>add-on:
>http://www.baltsoft.com/server.asp
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>Dominik
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Posted by Daly de Gagne
Mar 30, 2007 at 02:04 PM
I also am wondering whether Surfulater might be a good approach.
For a complex knowledge base where people wanted to slice and dice their info, MDE InfoHandler could be ideal.
One question I have is what all is necessary to be in a KB?
For our group conceivable it could be everything there is to know about work with FASD kids in foster care, etc., but then we have the whole WWW for that.
So I am trying to focus more on anecdotal learning—the knowledge pieces people experience, create, or realize they already know as they go about their work, as well as identification of things that they would like to know about.
There is also a conscious morale building aspect so people can celebrate how much more gifted and learned than they realize, and thus have greater motivation to keep on doing in a good way what they are already doing so well.
Daly
JJ wrote:
>I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on creating a competitive
>knowledgebase.
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>Here are the details:
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>#1. This is for my marketing group (about 15
>users)
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>#2. It will hold web clipping, word docs, excel sheets, powerpoints, pdfs &
>jpg.
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>#3. The idea is to have the marketing group add content, assign categories/key
>words and search.
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>#4. I know (and have used) several “standalone” apps with good
>success (i.e. OmeoPro, UltraRecall…) but none work well with a shared database on
>the web or server.
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>#5. I came close with a product called “Web Research”
>(http://www.macropool.com/en/index.html) The weakness it that it does not index
>documents, only web clipping. FYI I know many of you use Surfulater… You should
>checkout Web Research, it really in a great product!
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>Thanks for your help in this
>matter!!!
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>-jj
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Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Mar 30, 2007 at 02:11 PM
Daly,
“I am curious to know why you recommend it as opposed to other programs? Is it because of the server option?”
Yes! You get 100 points.
I don’t know the application well but I think it is ok for for a system where several users are entering and retrieving data.
Dominik
Posted by JJ
Mar 30, 2007 at 02:18 PM
Thanks to all for your ideas!
I’ve downloaded them & checking them out.
Daly….. I just found out that WebResearch from Macropool COULD be the answer for both of use.
It turns out that the network version includes the MS SQL free server…. This allows for the full indexing of documents. When you couple this with the powerful tools in WebResearch (i.e. snippets, capturing web pages, adding comments/notes, indexing, categories….) This COULD represent a complete solution.
I recommend you take a look at the product.
The developer seems to be very responsive. Here is his reply to my inquiry:
All points you mentioned are possible with the Web Research Network add-on.
By using it WR stores its data with the help of MS SQL Server which has indexing features built-in.
It is faster and multi-user capable. You can have one central store for alls users.
How to test and install it:
Verify that you have the most recent WR (2.7.3508)
Install MS SQL Server 2005 Express (free) on one PC (Mabe you have server in your office)
Install Web Research Network Add-on 2.7
Create a network collection
All downloads and more infos are available here:
http://www.macropool.com/en/download/webresearch/extensions/network.html
Martin
Hope this works!!!!
-jj
Posted by JJ
Mar 30, 2007 at 02:21 PM
Daly,
One more thing….
I received a reply from Neville from Surfulater and he said the current product is not network-able and does not index files yet.
-jj