Hello, I'm new on this list. I've got a question about Drupal.
There is a large, existing database of documents (about 300.000 right at the moment, but other databases of comparable dimension might be added). This database is to be "integrated" into drupal somehow, so that Users could comment on documents, add new ones, rate them etc.
The database contains not only document data, but also a wealth of metadata (hierarchical and causal relations, timestamps, versioning, authorship information, several distinct categories of documents - and some more).
While this all sounds a lot like Drupal nodes already, i fear that just converting every document to a node would lose some of the metainformation and possibly break some features of drupal due to sheer number of documents.
Would it be possible to have Drupal access that database directly instead of "nodes"? That way we'd probably save a lot of hassle.
Would that be possible using a module?
Any help appreciated,
Basti