Consolidated Digital Archive Search

Media, government and academic establishments can be sat on multiple collections of archived digital assets and material with huge potential value if access is made available to an appropriate target audience.

Historically the typical approach to providing these kinds of services has resulted in multiple vertical portals which are based around varying technologies and targeted at specific and sometimes disconnected communities of interest.

The net result? A raft of disconnected applications and stovepipe information silos. Users have to look in multiple places to achieve a single task based around similar concepts.

New advances in computing mean that this is now changing and the kinds of services which can be offered have moved to a new level.

Whether the end objective is monetisation of or simply accessibility to these multiple digital archives, Autonomy IDOL7 can consolidate and normalise them into a single index. This provides a platform upon which multiple Meaning Based Applications can be built with advanced retrieval, navigation and personalisation functionality.

Okana have specific expertise with this kind of application, with customers such as Northcliffe Media, Mirrorpix and the award winning UK National Archives Global Search.

Typically digital archive collections can run into tens or hundreds of millions of documents. Terabytes and even Petabytes of data. Regardless, IDOL7 can scale to meet any of these demands.

Creating a single consolidated archive has significant benefits to both the business and user communities:

• Organisations can realise the value of their assets by improving accessibility to them from a single place.
• Users can automatically cross link between assets; finding relevant information across multiple digital collections without the need to search each individually.
• IDOL7 personalisation allows users to be made aware of new digital assets which are of interest to them, as soon as they are added to the archive.
• All underlying document types and formats across the multiple collections can be viewed in the same application. This includes the ability to highlight and navigate image formats such as TIFF and PDF from OCR output in a “reading mode” view.

Okana SENSE™ Archive provides a means to rapidly surface all of the above functionality and more.

Whether it is a research portal for internal staff, a new public service or an academia, you should be looking at Okana SENSE Archive powered by Autonomy IDOL7 Server.