Suggestions/Ideas request regarding huge volume of unstructured data
I am planning to build a website with Drupal.
I have near 10 GB unstructured data means doc, ppt, pdf, xls, htm etc. which should be increasing in future.
My customer wants these all unstructured data should be linked to Drupal website in categorized way.
What I am planning now just making the categorize pages and hyper link these unstructured data to the page from web server directory. (Title of file and lik to the ppt , doc, xls etc file)
Is there any other ideas you have where I can manage these huge volume of unstructured data effectively ?
I mean any ideas to manage huge volume of unstructured data. or which is best way to link those files since my customer doesnt want to convert it in html/drupal format.
Appreciate if you share your experiences since I am newbie.
Thanks in advance.
maybe not
To be honest, Drupal may not be the best fit for something like that.
It certainly can be done, but only if you are looking at your content from an HTML-centric approach, and the CMS will own and manage the content without other interfaces.
But it will still take some original thinking to get Drupal tuned to fit with your workflow. Getting the web face to recognise changes made behind the scenes is not a solved problem yet AFAIK.
There are other document management solutions out there you should look at. Drupal file handling is not (yet) its strong point.
.dan.
Perhaps you should have a
Perhaps you should have a look at the File Framework (http://drupal.org/project/fileframework) and corresponding modules Bitcache (http://drupal.org/project/bitcache) and RDF (http://drupal.org/project/rdf).