Our ‘connected world’ is full of promising and enlightening information available on various medias (web sites / files / audio / video…). Interconnecting these elements on various dimensions (subjects / components (words, melodies / shapes…) / languages / locations / time…) may bring new interesting angles to view the world.

That is an ultimate goal!

Let us start with something simple and let it grow:
For now, at its start point, doc5ync aims at indexing and linking some of these elements in their own variety and locations: documents… namely ‘online books’ most of which in public domain and are thus available for free download.

Another advantage of online books is that they are available in various languages, on numerous subjects and just as numerous ‘editions’… which makes of them a good concrete exercise for our ultimate research goals.
The community collaboration is of course essential!
And by ‘community’, we mean YOU!

Your suggestions and remarks are welcome and appreciated.

Like many projects, the story of this one started by observing a personal need for organizing own old archived documents about several subjects and stored on a variety of medias (yes, I am a veteran developer!).

I first viewed this as a personal constraint. Until I recently met a group of friends on facebook trying to collect and put in common a set of archived documents and papers.
As the collection lacked classification, it was quite difficult to find a document by criteria such as document’s author, date, type, editor… etc.
That is where doc5ync started, slightly enlarging the collection to manage (from the original 160 documents to 6000+)

Interconnecting book information starts by collecting at least a portion of what is already there!
We do not intend to be just another book library... there are so many excellent actors on the web.
We want to give you access to various editions of various books in various languages and thematic. But our main purpose is to analyze what exists and provide a new insight into this information.

We started by the collection work
As of today we have a few thousands references to books on several online libraries (9000+ as of writing). We are still working to enrich this collection in number and quality. We will now start, in parallel, a first phase of analysis. We hope to give a preview of this work in the next few weeks.

As you may notice, our hosting conditions are relatively limited. We are actively looking for sponsors to acquire better and more efficient resources. Your help and attention is greatly appreciated.

We appreciate your comments questions and suggestions.
Please send your feedback to doc5ync[at]5ync.net

• Select the language. On startup, doc5ync tries to detect your language on connection. Change when desired of if it fails to correctly detect your language
• Menus are then displayed in the selected language

Search docs: display the document list that can be filtered to your selected criteria

• The content is composed of several tabs:
  • Found documents: list of documents. Here you may click and select a document.
  • Each row display the information of a document. Click the title to open the main page of the document at the main editor’s web site
    • If you hover an element (pass the mouse above an element), detailed information of the element are displayed (as a tooltip)… see below
    • The list displays the number of other publications (if any)… those are displayed on the next tab when the element selected.
  • Publications: list of other publications of the selected document (see below). Click a publication title to open its editor’s web page.
  • Search criteria: select your filter elements

Sample description (tooltip) when ‘hovering’ an element

Other publications tab

sample search results

Sample description (tooltip) when ‘hovering’ an element

• Title like: enter a partial or full text of the document to find
• Doc author like: enter part of full name of the author to find
• Doc area / doc type / author domain / language… select the element to search
• With external link: if ‘yes’ is selected = find only documents having a main publication
• With publications: if ‘Yes’ is selected = find only documents that have other publications

To launch the search, click Apply