Midsem Presentation - hamstar/Braincase GitHub Wiki
Our question: Introduce and describe the project such that all project students can understand what you have done
A personal knowledge base (PKB) is an electronic tool used to express, capture, and later retrieve the personal knowledge of an individual.
It differs from a traditional database in that it contains subjective material particular to the owner, that others may not agree with nor care about.
Importantly, a PKB consists primarily of knowledge, rather than information; in other words, it is not a collection of documents or other sources an individual has encountered, but rather an expression of the distilled knowledge the owner has extracted from those sources.
Preparation
- Requirements gathering
- Software evaluation
- Open Source repository
Main Features
- Auto backups
- Data survivability
- Portability (open standards)
- Knowledge capture
- Knowledge retrieval
- Knowledge organisation
- Knowledge protection (encrypted backups, SSL)
- Version Control
- Accessible
What we have so far
- Debian OS
- Debian package of the system
- Personal Repository for each user
- Web directory for each user
- Daily backups
- Exporting backups to dropbox
- Dokuwiki system
- Syncing of dokuwiki users into linux users
- logging
- Enabling of users Dropbox account from Dokuwiki
- logging
- Emailing of Dropbox authorization link
- Minor UI improvements
- SSL connection
Future
- More logging
- Ability to restore backups from dokuwiki
- Ability to switch between different backups and current knowledge
- Main product not just Braincase, also Github Project