What is it ?
Goozzee's goal is to offer an easy-to-use knowledge management solution, suitable for small teams or companies.Unlike most existing knowledge management software, Goozzee's classification system isn't based on hierarchies or tags: it uses Topic Maps, which allow a much more advanced and flexible knowledge classification.
Goozzee is in fact a mix of the features of three kinds of applications:
- Topic Maps authoring/browsing tools: Goozzee offers a very easy-to-use Topic Maps implementation, with topics, associations, occurrences (aka documents), roles, association types and scopes.
- Wikis: Goozzee is NOT a wiki. But it fills the same need: fast and easy documentation creation, and easy links between pages.
In Goozzee, each topic can be compared to a Wiki page, where you can type your documentation and share it immediately with other users; the Topic window offers a real WYSIWYG text editor, so you don't even have to fight with some wiki syntax, and linking your topics together - or creating new ones - is a matter of a couple of seconds, using contextual menus or even drag'n drop. - Document Management Systems: Goozzee's Document Management functionnality is - and will remain - pretty simple. Any kind of document can be uploaded into the repository. Each document is assigned a scope and access rights, and can be linked to any number of topics. A check-in/check-out system is also implemented to prevent editing conflicts between users.
But Goozzee doesn't offer any workflow engine. And it probably never will.
How does it work ?
Unlike many Knowledge Management/Document Management systems, Goozzee isn't web-based, but client/server.The repository is stored in a Mysql database. (In the future, support for other databases will be added.)
A client software must be installed on each user's machine. This software is written in C++, using the wxWidgets library, which allows easy ports to many operating systems. For now, only two operating systems are supported : Linux and Mac OSX. A Windows version should be available by the end of 2009.
Wanna help ?
Goozzee is a one man hobby project. That's why it's evolving very slowly.If you want to take part in it and boost things up, don't hesitate to contact me, using the Contact page.