ITEC Drawing & Document Management System

1. Security
2. Open standards – avoid “vendor lock-in”
   1. Portability to new platforms
   2. Multiple backup options
   3. Simple to “rebuild from scratch”
3. Simplicity and transparency of management and admin
   1. Avoid solutions that require deep knowledge or training to administer
   2. Accessible to volunteers and part-time members
4. What else?

• XigmaNAS for file storage
  • ZFS (“Z-File System”) for redundancy and data integrity
    • XigmaNAS web gui provides 99.9% of the functions necessary for admin
  • ZREP for local backup to offsite drives
  • Syncthing for data synchronization
  • Windows network file drive maps

• DokuWiki for project documentation
  • Storage as human-readable text files – easy to backup
  • Editing History
  • Access Control by page or namespace (“directory”)
• BookStack wiki
  • MySQL storage
  • Editing history
  • Access control

See ELWA Drawing Number Schema for examples.

• Etherpad
• Ethercalc
• Zenphoto