Digital Library Software

Inclusion on this list does not imply endorsement of any product or vendor by NELINET, nor does NELINET maintain relationships with these vendors. The software products below are listed as a convenience to our members. Product descriptions are quotes taken directly from the vendor's website. To have a software product added to the list, please contact Erin Logsdon (1.800.635.4638 x1931 or logsdon@nelinet.net).

ActivePaper Archive, Olive Software
	"ActivePaper Archive™ revolutionizes the way you archive your newspaper, and the way you access your archive! This award-winning product uses groundbreaking technology to instantly convert print editions to rich XML, which stores content, structure, and layout. The XML is interlaced with images of newspaper information objects, creating a perfect synergy between searchable database and hardcopy archive.
CONTENTdm
	"Fully web-compatible, the CONTENTdm Multimedia Software Suite provides easy loading, management and access to your media archives. Tools are provided to assist with every phase of collection development. You can start small with a few items or CONTENTdm can handle databases with millions of objects. The CONTENTdm technology is based on years of university research and testing that have resulted in a proven set of programs."
DB TextWorks, Inmagic, Inc.
	"TextWorks(R), Inmagic, Inc. , the core of all Inmagic(R) products, is a powerful, flexible combination of database and text retrieval software that enables you to quickly build networked and standalone textbases to manage diverse types of information including text, images, and multimedia. What's more DB/TextWorks is lightning fast--searching across 100,000 records in less than a second!"
Dienst, Cornell Digital Library Research Group (CDLRG)
	"The word "Dienst" refers to a number of things: A conceptual architecture for distributed digital libraries. A protocol for service communication in that architecture. A software system that implements that protocol. Conceptually, Dienst is a system for configuring a set of individual services running on distributed servers to cooperate in providing the services of a digital library. The open architecture of the Dienst system - exposure of the functionality through an defined protocol - makes it possible to combine Dienst services in flexible ways and augment the existing services with other mediator services, which build on the functionality of the existing services."
Curator, Endeavor, Inc.
	"Created to manage today's digital library collections, Endeavor's Curator uses new technology standards like XML, EAD and Dublin Core to describe, index and search electronic resources. Curator provides seamless searching across diverse digital object collections while managing and controlling links for separate repositories. Despite the numerous and disparate descriptions applied to digital collections, Curator ties together descriptions, creating a more effective research base. With Curator, libraries truly have the ability to create, manage and navigate the digital collections that are becoming the standard in the library world."
Insight Software Systems, Luna Imaging, Inc.
	"Luna Imaging's new generation of Insight client/server software allows organizations to manage, access, and use image collections over the Internet. Find images using any of Insight's search modes, from simple point and click select lists, to keyword searching, to full Boolean searching. Unique to Luna software, Insight combines retrieval and display of text information with an equally rich set of tools for viewing, comparing, and organizing images. Zoom and pan images; create and save image groups. Insight offers a complete visual environment for working with images. Limit image access to local intranets, or expand access to collections from almost anywhere."
MetaLib, Ex Libris
	"MetaLib is the perfect platform for managing a hybrid library environment, including both the emerging electronic collection with its digital resources and the traditional library with its print resources. MetaLib serves as a gateway to local and remote databases."
MrSID, LizardTech
	"LizardTech's MrSID Photo is a unique file format that enhances the workflow of imaging professionals. It encodes large, high-resolution images to a fraction of their original file size while maintaining the original image quality. Images become truly scalable and can be reduced, enlarged, zoomed, panned or printed without compromising integrity. And with MrSID's Selective Decompression and bandwidth-optimization capabilities, files move really fast!"
PastPerfect, Pastime Software Company, Inc.
	"PastPerfect provides full automation of accessions, loans, membership, cataloging, research, reports, and Digital Imaging. With Virtual Exhibit, the web interface module, you can produce HTML web pages for all or selected catalog records or create an entire website including themed exhibits with search capability."
Selecting software for the Digital Library by Chris Dobson and Carolyn Ernst, Econtent, v. 23, no. 6 (Dec. 2000), 27-32.

May 29, 2008

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