Tools for manual categorization?

[Janet Kaul]

Actually, I'd be interested in this also. My company has created
their own submissions system for documents in our help database.
It's usable via email, a web interface, or our ProTeam interface, and
authors send information to a "source", which is a subject category,
also specifying fields such as what tool the article is about, what
version, what format the article is in (ASCII or HTML), etc.

The system we have automatically adds the author, reviewer, date, and
size of the file to our database records.

We did this because we could not find any automated tools for
custom categorizing data. So if anyone knows of any, I'd love to
hear about them.

-Janet

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> Are there software tools for manually categorizing documents?  I'm looking
> for things that would make it easy to sort a large number of files (or
> pointers to them) into a hierarchical set of categories.  Examples would be
> sorting icons into directory folders, mail messages into Eudora folders, Web
> bookmark managers, etc.
> 
> These all work fairly well, but I'm wondering if the library community has
> developed some highly efficient, heavy-duty tools along these lines.
> 
> I'd also welcome comments on what features and functions are needed in such
> tools.
> 
> Nick Arnett
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