Any Suggested Plugins For A Community Archive?

[kbellis]

Hi,

I’m hoping that there might be a WP plugin (ideally compatible with Suffusion theme, but not mandatory) that will allow a group of volunteers to build an archive of land surveying records and also provide website visitors a means of doing searches for that data.

I’ve begun looking into maybe trying this with Joomla, but since I’m already familiar with WP (currently using it at https://www.panocea.us) I wondered if anybody in this community knew of something that comes close “out-of-the-box” that wouldn’t be difficult to modify.

General Goal – Land Survey Archive
(initial concept presented here: https://panocea.us/HCSA/HCSA11172011.pdf)

* An online searchable database of historic land records, maps and plans
* non-commercial; i.e., FREE, no fees, run by volunteers

General Requirements:

* A CMS-like interface wherein a community of users input data that’s easy to install and manage
* Registered users given varied security permission levels to access data input, data management, etc.
* Volunteers would build / add records of old survey plans
* Website visitors could search for and download old plans
* Searches could be ordered by any field for any record – e.g., desktop app Excel, OpenOffice, etc.
* Allow hyperlinking to related files; e.g., jpg, pdf, etc.

Here’s interface mockup for adding a record:
https://panocea.us/HCSA/images/Interface-Look—Add-Record-x-900.png

Here’s the interface mockup for search for a record:
https://panocea.us/HCSA/images/Interface-Look—Search-Record-x-900.png

Thanks for any suggestions.

Kelly