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![]() Open Source News Desk OpenMeta: New Open Source Document Management
Scales single laptops to large organizations using OS X technologies
By: Open Source News
Jan. 31, 2009 06:00 AM
Most document management systems are large, expensive, proprietary and intrusive. Ironic Software claims OpenMeta solves many of these problems. "Over the years that we have developed document management tools, like Yep for PDFs, and Leap for more general tasks, we came to the conclusion that the Mac was missing a good document management system", explained Tom Andersen of Ironic Software. "We developed OpenMeta to address an ongoing shortfall in OS X - the lack of good ways to set metadata such as tags and ratings on any file in OS X. We think that this technology will allow companies of any size to organize and find documents with ease". How it works: OpenMeta uses unix 'extended attributes' to store this metadata. By storing both the files and the metadata on the file system, backing up and restoring a document management system can be done with (almost) any normal backup system. For some offices, Time Machine will do more than an adequate job. Storing metadata and files using no special formats or databases allows for very robust future proof behavior. OpenMeta has been designed to last as long as OS X will last. There are no proprietary databases to deal with. Searching is accomplished using the Spotlight searching capabilities of OS X. These searches can be done using the Spotlight search tool in OS X Leopard. Richer search and document tools can use standard Apple commands to extend the basic search functionality of Spotlight. In addition to Tagger and omtool, Ironic Software has also recently released 'Deep' - an image search and management tool for OS X that allows for searching images by color similarities, tags, size and shape. Deep uses OpenMeta to store color and tag information, and offers a rich immersive search experience. Ironic's other two document management programs, Leap and Yep will be changing over to use OpenMeta in the coming months. Why Open Source? OpenMeta may be a solution for large companies willing to do in house development of the tools and systems appropriate for their business. Reader Feedback: Page 1 of 1
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