To setup a DMS this absolutely a must have…
Give it +1
Any ideas on the way for that?
For research data management, there is a Zotero, perhaps an option to collaborate with them and provide an app for this in Nextcloud (which also connects to their desktop/mobile clients). Problem is that they want to earn money with server subscriptions…
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Maybe this kind of approach would be nice and light (though example is specific)
https://www.dataone.org/software-tools/matt-metadata-authoring-tool
Has there been any progress made on this?
mathiasconradt‘s functional spec (Oct’17) is exactly what I’m looking for in order to be able to use next cloud as a dynamic information model for all my files. I want to get away from static / inflexible folder structures, which I view as the only thing holding me back from using next cloud.
There is a proprietary solution called M-Files which has a really nice implementation of this, which goes on to leverage external services for content analysis. E.g Auto-suggestion of metadata based on file content.
It would be great, say, if the next cloud files module were to be renamed “folders”, and a new module could be added called “objects”. The former essentially presenting the existing static folder-structure view, the latter presenting a dynamic view which would be user-malleable to fit their use-case / queries.
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I was thinking all that might be required for this would be to create a meta-data directory based on an appropriate existing adaptive object model pattern / framework, which would be leveraged as an index to the files stored in next cloud (I assume each has some form of referencable primary key?).
In terms of GUI, M-Files tries to look like a folder structure, which I don’t think is necessary. I think having a single data table displaying everything (limits / pagination notwithstanding), where you can add / remove the metadata columns you’re interested in, and then sort / filter them with excel/access style quick filters, would result in a very simple yet powerful querying mechanism that MS Office users should already be pretty familiar with.
Further bells & whistles could be incorporated to give some high-level homing in on relevant object sets in the initial view. E.g. You might have a small number of high-level / common metadata types such as bucket/project and documentType. So you could quickly round down to, say, “all the invoices under project 1”. Then once you’re looking at that dataset, you might do further rounding down by more specific metadata.
They key thing would be in being able to create pretty extensive sets of metadata profiles (type & property sets).
Working for years with ELO, M-Files and Alfresco, this is exacatly what i’m looking for … like a DMS/ECM extension. Many Apps have been developed, but this one would be really great extension!
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Hi,
such an app would be fantastic and would simplify a lot! I was already surprised that this doesn’t already exist!
Thanks!
+1 for havin’ such an app.
+1 for me!
It is an absolute must, if you want to use NExtcloud as a document archivin service!
+1 this would leverage nextcloud to an whole new level
+1
It would be indeed very useful to be able to „centralise” all metadata in Nextcloud! The tagging system now in place is, I think, pretty good, certainly a step in the right direction, way better then what a normal OS environment has. Are there any news in this regard?
+10 just want to point out the importance of such functionality.
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It’s been a while now - is there any progress in using metadata?
I tried Custom properties, but these can’t be used in workflows. It’s only possible to use Collaborative Tags in workflows - but these tags can’t be customized…
What I’d ned are tags that I can edit myself and use in workflows. Is there any solution yet?
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any progress on this? without metadata nextcloud files is almost useless for storing thousands of files. i use sharepoint, want to use nextcloud, but can’t justify moving if i can’t find my files. folder hierarchy is only 10% useful in finding the right file.
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This would really be a super useful feature. To my knowledge, the only metadata that is currently supported (beyond the basic file system metadata) are the tags. I arrived at this forum thread because I was wondering if we could manage metadata of documents similarly as I can do with Zotero for papers or Calibre for books.
Of course, a solution is to use Calibre (or a similar system) on my local computer and configure Calibre to store the documents in a folder in the mounted remote NextCloud disk. However, this solution has some shortcomings. One shortcoming is that the metadata will not be shared if I want to share my documents with other people.