TABLE OF CONTENTS One of the major challenges of AEC project management is the tremendous volume of knowledge that has been created in the last 50 years. The time invested in searching for information is a significant productivity drain. PDF and Acrobat offer a way to manage knowledge as never before.
During the 1960s, the United States, under the direction of Dr. W. von Braun, put a man on the moon within a 9-year period using only slide rules, drawing boards, and typewriters. In the 1970s the space program was drastically curtailed, with much of the knowledge scattered among bunkers, garages, government warehouses, microfilm, and within the brains of retirees.
An initiative to return to manned deep-space flight and eventually a manned trip to Mars has made the information valuable again. The New Economy Institute (NEI) is working with the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center under the Congressionally funded Workforce Aging Management Program (WAMP). As a significant percentage of the NASA scientist and engineer populations near retirement, their knowledge needs to be captured, along with other scattered resources.
In this chapter you see how to use Acrobat's catalog feature to index and create a database of the text in a document collection. You learn how to:
Collect and store files for ease of indexing
Build and configure a catalog
Attach an existing index file to a document
Search a single document
Search an index and examine returns using modified and customized search parameters.
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