Digital Library

What is Digital Library Software?

A digital library allows you to digitally organize your books, journals, catalogs, maps, manuscripts, etc. Storing your content digitally will enable you to access them easily, without any stress. This software can be used in various institutes, schools, colleges, universities, etc.

Our Digital Library Solutions

At Forefront Technologies, we bring together ultra-modern Technologies to deliver futuristic Digital Library Solutions. Our Solutions are successfully implemented, live, and running in many of the most prestigious organizations in the Middle East.
We provide integrated software solutions for displaying, browsing, searching, indexing, and exchanging digital content. By acquiring our solution, libraries can organize and reuse the content in a more efficient and smart approach.

Benefits

  • Preserving original content and allow Displaying books, newspapers, manuscripts, maps, in addition to other digital content as they look, in an easy-to-use interactive environment.
  • Saving time by having Super-fast search and retrieve functionalities using Metadata and/or Content.
  • Access from anywhere
  • Secured environment.
  • Preserving precious collections by providing public with an identical digital copy to access.
  • Environment friendly; broader access with less paper.
  • Generating income by allowing selling digital content online.
  • Protect intellectual properties by comprehensive access control.

Features

  • Displaying any size/resolution of images online without downloading whole image
  • Displaying hundreds of full images at once through single view
  • Full control of watermarking displayed pages and downloaded pages/objects. Support of dynamic Metadata to be presented for each watermark.
  • Multi-Language interface
  • Authentication through LDAP
  • Access Rights limitation through Groups/Users Rights
  • Access limits through IP-range
  • Public accounts without login with limited Access Rights
  • Searching through metadata and full-text content with support of mixed languages in query
  • Highlighting search hits directly on displayed pages
  • Freely extendable Metadata schema support for each object
  • Full text search
  • Metadata search
  • Boolean operators
  • Proximity Search
  • Fuzzy Search
  • Faceting of results
  • Extraction of OCR-ed text
  • Editing of OCR-ed text
  • Annotating Manuscripts with word coordinates retained on image
  • Translating of extracted text through Google and Microsoft engines
  • Hierarchical categorization of Objects
  • Annotation by text and freehand drawing directly on displayed content
  • Sharing Annotations with colleagues and on Social media
  • Batch importing (or serial publications or through defined identifiers)
  • Ability to edit Metadata after import
  • Bulk editing of metadata for many imported objects
  • Single interface with responsive design which Works on all computers and smart devices
  • Support for Video search through captions
  • Support of Geolocations for each object and to display them on interactive maps.
  • Built-in Content Management System that allows reuse of parts of collections on real-time updated customizable content pages.
  • Controlling the exposure of metadata and full-text for search engines based on verified Metadata Schemas. Controlling which objects and which Metadata, as well as adding limits of amount of exposed data for full-text.
  • Exposing parts of collections through OAI-PMH for Metadata harvesting.
  • Ingesting metadata from Bibliographic systems/services through Z39.50 or SOAP services.
  • Ability to extract Metadata from Worldcat and similar services.
  • Ability to connect to payment gateways like PayPal in order to request payment for access or download to certain objects.