Smart Libraries Newsletter [December 2005]
Auto-Graphics launches ASP digital library product
Breeding, Marshall.Copyright (c) 2005 ALA TechSource
Through its service called “AGent Digital Collections,” Auto-Graphics has extended its product line to include a platform for helping libraries create, and provide access to, digitized collections of local content. Auto-Graphics specializes in products offered through the ASP (application service provider) model, a model in which the vendor hosts the software on its own servers. The company’s federated search, resource sharing, and ILS products follow this approach as well.
Auto-Graphics designed the AGent Digital Collections service to enable its library customers to provide patrons with access to digital collections—without the time-consuming requirement for libraries to maintain their own infrastructures. A completely Web-based product, AGent Digital Collections provides users with the capability to define a collection; upload digital files; and describe the files. It also provides access to the collection through a professionally designed interface. Library staff members can use the Web-based interface to catalog the objects in the collection, and once the library uploads and describes the files, they become immediately available to users and patrons. Offered via a subscription model, the service charges no additional monies related to the amount of storage used.
To prepare the content for use with AGent Digital Collections, a library staff member can either scan the items in-house or outsource that work. In addition, Auto-Graphics provides libraries with a service that assists in the scanning, cataloging, and indexing of a collection.
| Publication Year: | 2005 |
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| Type of Material: | Article |
| Language | English |
| Published in: |
Smart Libraries Newsletter |
| Volume 25 Number 12 | |
| Issue: | December 2005 |
| 4 | |
| Publisher: | ALA TechSource |
| Chicago, IL | |
| Published in Smart Libraries Newsletter under the title: "AGent Deals with Digital Dilemmas" | |
| Company: |
Auto-Graphics, Inc. |
| Products: |
AGent Digital Collections |
| ISSN: | 1541-8820 |
| Permalink: | http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=11868 |
| Record Number: | 11868 |
| Last Update: | 2012-12-29 14:06:47 |
| Date Created: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
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