Flexible Metadata based Document Management System for Research Organization
Scientist, NPOL, DRDO, India, Ferose Babu TA · International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering · 2019
Document management inside an organization is an interesting socio-technical problem.A typical research organization, in addition to various technical documents manages a range of documents meant for publishing, limited circulation, sharing, uncirculated personal reference copies, physical files and dynamic paper files.Flexible metadata structure specific to type of document eases efficient description of document and retrieval.A system integrated with relevant applications having different access levels using databases over intranet can be a very effective document management system by incorporating a combination of structured and unstructured workflow.Technical documents in intranet over a period of time turn into knowledge evolution of a research organization.