Library automation solutions provider SirsiDynix, US, has announced the release of version 4.1 of its SirsiDynix Portfolio digital asset management solution. The solution builds upon SirsiDynix Enterprise search and discovery, adding digital asset management capabilities, optical character recognition (OCR) technology, open archives Initiative compatibility for web harvesting, and classified security capabilities for restricting visibility of confidential materials by user or group.
The solution is designed for a broad swath of libraries, and it reportedly has the toolset to reflect that. State and public libraries utilise Portfolio digital asset management to make unique local collections available to their community and beyond. Academic and special libraries are said to utilise the Portfolio toolset to centralise digital information and tools for simplified search and content management.
With the Portfolio solution, libraries of varying types and missions are said to be empowered to gain relevance beyond the library community by exposing digital content to web crawlers through OAI-PMH compliance. The solution also provides full-spectrum search results and enables access to previously unsearchable items through in-text (OCR) search and optional harvesting of library-selected websites or external resources. Users can localise record-keeping with customisable metadata fields, and ability to cross-link an unlimited number of records for easy reference.
Additionally, the Portfolio solution helps organise and share multimedia collections including PDFs, video, audio and web pages, and preserve historical collections with support for major standards for the archivist. It also restricts or limits access to protected assets, item-by-item or batch, through the Portfolio platform's accountability control settings. Optional access control and authentication management features can also accommodate different viewing privileges by individual user, group or location.
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