Document Archive (docarc) is a database written in Perl to help you (and your workgroup) keeping track of the vast amount of electronic documents and BibTeX entries you might have in use. The underlying database is MySQL (because it's addressed through Perl's DBI, it might work with others as well).

It's meant to be an alternative to .bib files and a complicated directory structure of document files. Although it's a web-based application command line frontends to the most important features have been developed. Some work on integration into the great browser suites Mozilla and Firefox has also been done.

• widely configurable


• charset recode (bibtex, html, rdf)


• tree structure for content classification


• multiuser containers may be used to group project oriented documents


• public runmode allows readonly access to allowed documents for anyone without authorization


• fully themeable


• traditional (standard) theme
  
  
  • fully css-configurable per central stylesheet for nearly every class of
    elements
  
  
  • user customizable (some options that influence the handling)
  
  
  • strictly xml conform (uses doctype xhtml 1.0 transitional)
  
  
  • optimized for mozilla, but also runs under recent versions of
    other browsers. it's not planned to support obsolete browser versions because
    i'd like to concentrate on standards like xml,
    css and dom.
  
  


• simple layout that returns special pages for your internal search engine (eg. htdig)


• dynamic online help


• fields/doctypes structures and categories configurable via web interface


• command line interface (cli) for simple access during latex document compiling


• internal database search lets you specify complex search expressions


• fulltext search through document files available via integrated ht://dig< support


• modular extensible. available extensions:
  
  
  • frame and iframe based extensions of the traditional theme
  
  
  • planned: scan2pdf interface (tiff/bmp/png/jpeg -> pdf)
  
  
  • planned: content extraction (just have to upload a pdf file, database
    extracts the necessary content)
  
  
  • planned: printing and format conversion capabilities (ghostscript, xpdf,
    lpr, psutils)
  
  
  • planned: email support (send registered users bibtex entries or document
    files)
  
  
  • planned: documentation of template interface
  
  
  • planned: little integration into some famous editors (eg. vi,
    emacs,
    kile)
  
  
  • planned: more browser integration (eg. internet explorer,
    opera,
    konqueror)
  
  


• mozilla/firefox integration (plugin and search engine)
  
  
  • direct access to documents via toolbar
  
  
  • select html embedded bibtex and post it directly to docarc via context menu
  
  
  • let docarc parse the currently viewed web-page (many famous e-journals are supported)
  
  
  • query document archive from sidebar or url input field