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Document Management For Research With Annotation?
msimm writes "I'm currently looking for a document management system for personal and research-related use. Having looked at Alfresco and KnowledgeTree along with a slew of similar open source document management systems they seem to have a common set of features including version control, archiving, document permission/ownership and search/indexing. What I'd like, in order to help me manage my own continually growing collection of pdf/doc/odf/rtf/txt files, would be something that allowed me to view and annotate documents (and possibly collaborate/share notes) without requiring me to download, edit and re-upload each document. Obviously there are plenty of capable document management systems out there, so I really suspect I've simply missed something and am hoping someone can point me to a better way to index, search, collaborate and keep and share notes on the ever increasing glut of useful information I seem to use and collect."
Zotero may well be what you're looking for. Much better and more open source than EndNote (mentioned above).
Try Mendeley. They're still pretty new, but very promising with their desktop client for Linux/Mac/Win in addition to the web interface. They also sync perfectly with Zotero and CiteULike, which makes migration easier. You can annotate PDFs directly in the desktop, but I think only the latest beta build has support for sync'ing the annotations across multiple computers. I'm hopeful for them -- it's definitely one of the most promising Ref manager systems I've seen (oh yes, they also support Bibtex,Endnote,Refworks formats heavily)
An old-timer with old-timey ideas.