Re: Drupal, WebGUI, Plone, BLOG, RSS, et al....

Just curiosity and leading towards helping organisations with their
chronic lack of ability to organise, classify, meta data create and
relate documents and knowledge - companies really are dumb with this
respect.

I too think that a knowledge management solution is different to a
content management.  Content is content - knowledge goes a bit further
and is the extraction of useful info (knowledge) from stored content.
So the ability to do taxonomies and meta data classifications and input
a strict corporate vocabulary are ideal.  I am thinking of software like
Trim (Tower Software, AUS) and the like.  A system that is both easy to
admin and setup and can be used in its most basic form as a content
management system (Web GUI really rocks in this regard and is
soooooooooooooooooooooo cool) - but also allow me the chance to index
the files, find relations and track how users search and interact so
that the system can be more like a knowledge management system (Expert
System) and less like a content management system (decision support)..

I mean we have yahoo personals, match.com and the like.  We have a
billion systems to look for and find relationships on this planet -
where are the ordinary to access ones for SME's that can do the same
magic for their gigabytes of corporate knowledge that is just sitting
there wasting platters?



On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 10:24 -0700, Adam Lowry wrote:

> On 2005 Sep 25, at 7:21 PM, Richard Ford wrote:
> 
> > Is there a comparison to be made between plone and drupal?  Or WebGUI?
> >
> > When is something a real CMS (Vocabulary, Taxonomy, FOAF, Meta  
> > Structures) and when is it a fancy blog, HTML content management  
> > system?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > RF.
> 
> I don't know WebGUI, but I used Plone a bit at Exoweb and Drupal for  
> my personal projects.
> 
> They're both full CMSes; but what is real and what is not is a bit  
> subjective. Better to outline what you really want it to do and  
> compare against the others, like nEO and Qiu Yu said.
> 
> If you're not looking for as large a system as what Craig talked  
> about, I'd recommend Drupal. You can get it running quickly, but the  
> infrastructure is solid, so extending it can be simple. I've heard of  
> people adding modules to communicate with more advanced backend  
> systems, so you can leave the fast interface end just in mod_php.
> 
> And although I've never maintained the system myself, after seeing  
> people have so much trouble with Plone, I wouldn't recommend it, even  
> though I think Python >> PHP.
> 
> What kind of things are you wanting to do with the system?
> 
> Adam, not in Beijing any more

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