knowledge base software

[Condon Thomas A KPWA]

Net Llama! <mailto:netllama at linux-sxs.org> typed thusly on Wednesday,
January 08, 2003 7:07 PM:

>>> Can anyone recommend knowledge base software?  I'm looking for something
>>> 
>>> web based that stores articles of commonly found problems in categories
>>> that are all indexed so that you can easily search through it.
>> 
>> Actually, if you can define the categories, this sounds incredibly easy
>> to write (in Perl, anyway, using DBI and DBD::Pg to a PostgreSQL
>> backend). If you don't find anything, and I get some time after this
>> weekend, I could probably whip something up in a few hours.  The
>> important thing is that you properly define the categories you need (and
>> the size of those fields -- and IIRC, BLOBS can't be indexed).
> 
> I dunno about BLOBS, but CLOBs can (at least under Oracle, not that this
> is a requirement or anything).
> 
> Anyhoo, that's might generous of you to offer, but unfortunately, this
> project is no where near organized enough for me to have well defined
> categories (or anything else) yet.  Also, this is for work, so i don't
> think you'd want to be volunteering your time for something that is
> going into a company.
> 

Lonnie,

You might check out http://www.wiki.org.  It is a collaborative site
construction tool that allows users to add/modify articles.


In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord,

Tom  :-})

Thomas A. Condon
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