/lsync-dms

Flexible web-based document management system

lsync-dms

Flexible web-based document management system

Phase I Features (all todo)

  • POSIX object storage backend
  • OpenStack Swift object storage backend (using tempurl for client accesses)
  • Container per authorized user in one account, or Swift account per authorized user
  • SQLite metadata backend
  • SQLite Full Text Search backend
  • Object tracking (by content hash) to allow for arbitrary reorganizaion of objects
  • Editable metadata is stored in object storage backend (Custom headers for Swift, xattrs for POSIX)
  • All of the search/database backend stuff is re-generatable from the object stores
  • Full text searching (FTS4 in sqlite)
  • Tag searching
  • Access control (public vs private) (and visibility) per object, including in search results

Phase II+ Features

  • S3 object storage backend
  • Bucket per authorized user
  • Multiple web frontends (for cloud storage backends)
  • Synchronization of database updates for each web frontend via work queue, and ability to easily clone frontend database states or rebuild db from scratch on out-of-rotation frontend.
  • Photo gallery
  • Online (HTML5) Video gallery/with transcoding
  • Exif data searching (geolocating photographs, search for photos within a given radius)
  • Assigning geo metadata irrespective of exif (override)