Accomplish more with a simple and quick Digital Library.
Contact us: (801) 477-0728 or sales@simpledl.com
Feature List
- Speed
- Solr/Lucene provides sub second search response time
- Caching of popular queries enhances search response time
- Optimized database provides fast data retrieval and display
- Simple Digital Library automatically optimizes images, PDFs, movies, and mp3s for quick web delivery
- Work with us to quickly add new features and add new plug-ins.
- Findability
- Proximity searching brings the most relevant items to the top
- Auto-item recommendation helps your patrons discover new items that are closely related to any item they view
- Intuitive search interface for patrons
- Full text searching with results based on item not page level
- Configurable relevancy ranking allows you to optimize search for your collections and patrons
- Search a specific field for users who know exactly what they are looking for
- Facets allow for easy browsing of your collections
- Search within items. Search can be constrained to one PDF
- Full UTF-8 support allows you do load and display virtually any language
- We will automatically extract text from tif files uploaded in book or manuscript format (OCR).
- User Interface
- You control the CSS and design the interface the way you want to
- Accessible through virtually any web browser
- Simple and powerful search all box
- Search engine friendly design
- Persistent URLs (even after updates) keep bookmarks valid
- Adobe reader and a flash player are the only plug-ins your patrons will need
- Batch Loading
- Load one item at a time or load over 30,000 items through the batch process
- Simple upload removes unnecessary time consuming and repetitive steps
- Consistent process for uploading for all media types (images, PDFs, movies, etc.)
- Load objects with virtually any web browser
- System Maintenance
- Administer the system through virtually any web browser
- Replace items without changing URLs
- Empty a collection
- Delete a collection
- System Transparency
- Real-time statistics let you know what the system is doing
- Accurate time estimates for when the batch loading complete
- Move onto other tasks, including other batches, while monitoring your previous loads
- Export all of your items and metdata using your metadata field names or Dublin Core mappings as tab delimited text or XML.
- Configurable
- Specify which collections are available through OAI
- Allow your patrons to download the original items you uploaded, configurable for each collection
- Specify collection url, help with navigation and search engines
- Create controlled vocabularies from an existing field or import an existing vocabulary
- Design is in your control
- Set the relevancy ranking for each of your metadata fields
- Easily add Google Analytics or Omniture Site Catalyst JavaScript to the system
- Easily develop, add, and insert item types through the plug-in architecture.
- Quick and Easy Patrons Access
- PDFs are delivered one page at a time to minimize download time
- Watch movies instantly with streaming movie support
- Large image support with real time image zoom and pan (the largest image uploaded thus far was 800MB)
- Host simple data sets with metadata only entries
- Allow your users to download the original item (item download is configurable for each collection)
- Allow faculty and students to create and manage online slideshows using content stored in SimpleDL (will be released mid May 2010).
- Supported Item Types
- Images
- PDFs
- Video
- Audio
- XML - Upload EAD or other XML files and we will use your XSL or style sheet to render and display them.
- Complex Objects - Associate multiple files or similar or different types in a hierarchical fashion.
- System Interoperability
- Fully compliant OAI responder
- Easy import process allows for easy migrate from other systems
- Qualified Dublin Core
- Security
- IP address collection security
- Configure system user rights for multiple system and collection administrators
- Built in modular fashion which allows us to quickly add new archive types (photo, video, audio, data only, pdf, etc..). Need something new? We can work with you.
- Most importantly it is simple and easy for everyone to use