Over the past few years I’ve mostly been using SCAN for document management (See http://eric-blue.com/2008/05/18/document-management-systems-scan-smart-content-aggregation-and-navigation/). I also wrote a very simple web-based document browser last year (http://eric-blue.com/2010/01/03/how-to-create-your-own-personal-document-viewer-like-scribd-or-google-books/).

I’ll be checking out the other suggestions in the comments above.

Thanks,
Matt

I realize this thread is a little dated, but I am currently working through the same analysis and research and was wondering if you had any thoughts and/or an update on this topic?

Thanks,
John

Back in March, I began evaluating some open source Document Management Systems (DMS) to help compliment my wiki-based Personal Knowledge Manager (PKM). That’s a little bit of acronym-overload. But, in simple terms I really am looking for a way…

http://www.dspace.org/

Your research and development into Document Management Systems sounds very interesting. I also admire that your blog is about your thoughts on technology, philosophy and personal development.. quite similar to my own blog.

Anyways, I noticed that some of the things that you were mentioning in this post were quite similar to OpenLink Data Spaces. Which takes some ideas from Social networking services and applies and DataPortability. On OpenLink Data Spaces each user can have their own wiki, blog, discussions etc. But what might be interesting to you is that you can also install MediaWiki (as well as Wordpress and Drupal).

Have a look at Myopenlink.net for an example installation of ODS. You can also check out the documentation for using MediaWiki on ODS, where SIOC data is exposed

Many thanks,

Daniel Lewis

Thanks for your comment. I definitely plan on posting a series of articles once I get further along with my setup. Stay tuned!

I’m finding these posts really interesting. Once you’ve chosen the tools, I’d love to hear how you’re actually managing the data. How you’re categorizing and linking within your Wiki, for example.

Thanks!