currently my website (anarch.cc) hosts a library of texts, but it sucks as a library. i'm just utilizing blog infrastructure and dumping pdfs inside of a series of folders somewhere.
does anyone know of a good library infrastructure i could start utilizing? i've considered the anarchistlibrary infrastructure, but i'd prefer something else honestly.
@DreamerChrysalis just normal things e-libraries have. different kinds of sorting functions (maybe alphabetically based on author, or title, or maybe published date, or maybe added date) yknow, normal database stuff
@exiliaex what would you optimally want the user (and curator) flows to look like for this kind of website?
@oldwomanjosiah really i'd just like a website where the curators can add a text (maybe a pdf) with it's related information into a file and users can access different presentations of that data according to client-side sorting choices, if that makes sense.
i wasn't thinking of anything really complex. just simple database stuff. index, tag, search, sort.
@exiliaex i’m not very experienced in front end but the back end for that sounds relatively simple (i do eat my words on that sentiment sometimes though 🙃)
i could see this being a generally useful piece of software though
@exiliaex I’ve used and like https://www.librarything.com/ but idk if that’s flexible enough (the API is disabled) and it’s aimed mostly at physical collections. https://shelf-it.web.app/ is also a thing, as well as https://opensemanticsearch.org/. BiblioteQ is a very multitooly full scale library system.
@exiliaex the class of software you're after is a Document Management System (DMS). There's a bunch of open source options. I don't have a specific recommendation for which is best for a public document library. Many focus too hard on the security restriction and approval processes rather than the tagging, indexing, filtering and searching features you'd be after.
@Danshep79 thank you for giving me a usable phrase! Document Management System. i will use this to see what open source options are out there. thank you very much.
@exiliaex Not sure about existing infrastructure but what are your needs exactly ? I'm guessing indexing, search, maybe cross-reference ? What else do you need ?