NemakiWare is a document repository designed to manage organisational content while enforcing detailed access permissions. Built around the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard, it combines conventional document management with semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
The system uses CouchDB for document storage and Apache Solr for indexing and searching content. It provides a React interface for working with documents, folders, users and groups, alongside interfaces that allow other applications to interact with the repository.
A central design principle is that access permissions apply to search results as well as the documents themselves. This makes NemakiWare particularly relevant to organisations exploring AI-assisted document retrieval without exposing information to unauthorised users.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- CMIS-compliant repository – manages documents and folders through standard content management interfaces.
- Granular access controls – supports user and group permissions, inherited folder permissions and document-level access restrictions.
- Hybrid search – combines full-text keyword searching with vector-based semantic similarity.
- Permission-aware search – filters retrieved content according to the current user’s access rights.
- Document processing – automatically extracts, chunks and indexes content for semantic retrieval.
- Metadata management – supports custom properties for classifying and organising documents.
- Version management – maintains document revisions and supports relationships between repository objects.
- Search configuration – supports folder-scoped searches, metadata weighting and similar-document discovery.
- Model Context Protocol – exposes search and document retrieval tools to compatible AI agents.
- Embedding providers – integrates with Hugging Face Text Embeddings Inference and Amazon Bedrock.
- Authentication – supports passwords, passkeys, OpenID Connect and SAML.
- Administrative tools – provide indexing controls, repository health monitoring and permission testing.
- Integration – supports document event webhooks and import/export operations.
Website: github.com/aegif/NemakiWare
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Developer: Aegif, SUGIMOTO Takuma, Ishii Akinori and contributors
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
NemakiWare is written in Java and JavaScript. Learn Java with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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