Document Archive is a web-based database to help you keeping track of the vast amount of electronic documents and BibTeX entries you might have in use. Browser plugins and console frontends are developed to allow fastest access with your typical tools.

Document Archive is a database written in Perl to help you 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 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 will be developed. Some work on integration into the great browser suite Mozilla (available at http://www.mozilla.org) has also been done.

Features
widely configurable
charset recode (bibtex, html, rdf)
tree structure for content classification (too slow :-)
no limit and offset supported in tree mode
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, also runs under newer versions of internet explorer. it's not planned to support obsolete browser versions because i'd like to concentrate on standards like xml, css and dom.
dynamic online help
fields and document types structures configurable via web interface
modular entensible. 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)
maybe planned :-) : user agent specific behavior to return special pages for your internal search engine (eg. htdig).
planned: email support (send registered users bibtex entries or document files)
planned: documentation of template interface
mozilla integration
mozilla toolbar plugin: direct access to documents via mozilla toolbar
mozilla search engine: query document archive from mozilla sidebar or url input field