Open Source Document Retrieval System

[Christopher Browne]

> If you need some kind of on-line document repository, Owl Intranet
> Knowledgebase is a great choice:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/owl

Another approach would be to install Wiki software such as TWiki, and
upload documents into that.  

Indexing would be handled two ways:
 - Wikis generally have some "search" scheme;
 - You can build Wiki documents that provide indexes pointing to
   documents of interest

At the office, we have a Zope install; it provides the two indexing
mechanisms:
 a) You can do "text search" search throughout the set of documents
    checked in;
 b) Each document has to be placed _somewhere_ in a "tree" that tries
    to organize documents.

I would like to see an "open source Documentum," where the idea would be
thus:
 -> You "check in" documents perhaps including some metadata...

 -> A "spooler/archiver" process takes the documents, extracts
    whatever metadata is possible ("file" can give some useful data!)
    and then does two things:

     1. Stashes the document somewhere, perhaps under an arbitrarily
        cryptic name;

     2. Stores the metadata in a database of some sort to assist in
        searching/selecting documents.
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