[Mediawiki-l] alternatives to wiki for cross-indexing

[=James Birkholz=]

Ok, here's a different type of query.

I need to input a lot of unrelated text as paragraphs units (factoids) and 
be able to easily tag keywords in the text and to tag portions of the text 
with keywords. I've considered installing a local wiki and using the 
linking to quickly create articles for each keyword and then using the 
"What links here" to see what text references certain keywords in order to 
build new text from the old, in different arrangements.

I don't do my own hosting, so I'm not anxious to spend a day or two 
installing another wiki instance, and don't want to use my existing wiki 
for the purpose.

There must be an easier way, does anyone know of one? I looked at the 
indexing features in Microsoft Word, but that is more cumbersome, and 
doesn't provide the convenience of hyperlinking. I might do it as a 
database in Access, but creating the keywords would be a lot of extra 
typing, unless I tag the original text and build some code to strip the 
tags for final display. Or I could just use wiki tags, copy and paste the 
final text to a temp wiki page, and then copy and "paste unformatted" to 
strip the linking tags.... A database would have the advantage of being 
able to flag portions of text as used so I don't duplicate...



James Birkholz
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