By jstarek on

Hello everyone,

I stumbled upon another thing that I don't know how to do in Drupal.

I'd like to create an archive or rather a library of documents (images and PDFs, mostly, but also other formats). This archive should store metadata about the documents, and upon uploading files into the archive, users should be able to enter metadata in a form. I suppose that searching such an archive would be possible with Drupal's search facilities, but how about displaying its contents?

Currrently, I'd prefer a "library catalogue" approach to displaying lists of documents. If a user clicks on one document, I'm still undecided whether it should simply be offered for download or if the user should be taken to a page with a thumbnailed version of the document and an overview over its metadata...

Any ideas are appreciated!

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solimeno commented

Check out the Web File Manager module ...

http://drupal.org/project/webfm

I was playing around with it on a development site last night and it may be what you need - it stores metadata and accomodates a variety of predefined file formats. Right-clicking on uploaded files gives some options including editing the metadata (if memory serves).

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jstarek commented

After some experiments, I think I'll just use the Content Construction Kit. I have defined a suitable content type with fields for author and publishing information and a free-form keyword field.

When my site is finished, I'll let the community know more about this, perhaps it's interesting for some people here to see how someone without previous experience approaches Drupal.