Library technology solutions provider SirsiDynix, US, has announced the official release of the SirsiDynix Portfolio digital asset management tool. The Portfolio 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 a security-conscious content management system.
The Portfolio solution helps libraries to gain relevance beyond the library community by exposing digital content to Web crawlers through OAI-PMH compliance. It 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. Further, it helps to localise record-keeping with customisable metadata fields, and ability to cross-link an unlimited number of records for easy reference. Libraries can also organise and share multimedia collections including PDFs, video, audio, Web pages and more, and preserve historical collections with support for major standards for the archivist.
In addition, the Portfolio solution allows libraries to restrict or limit access to protected assets, item-by-item or batch, through its 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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