This strikes me as the sort of thing you should be able to do with Semantic MediaWiki extensions. We're doing a lot of it the clunky manual way right now and haven't semantic-ified everything yet, but it's a direction to investigate.
-Nate B-
Rubin Abdi  wrote:
>                 Want:
> 
> * Web app that deals with inventorying physical objects
> * Each object gets a listing on the site
> * Users can add details like current location, comments to each listing
> * Changes in details are kept as history
> * Objects can be tagged into multiple collections or sets (like
> component required to make this large thing work)
> * Batch operations with multiple objects (move everything from pallet
> rack A to off site storage container)
> * The object gets a publicly facing URL
> * The web app can generate some sort of label + URL in QR code for the
> item so one can scan it with a phone and get some information about the
> object quick
> * Free, open source
> 
> Does this exist?
> 
> --
> Rubin
> rubin@starset.net
> 
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