During the international study day on IIIF and archives, EidoPolis will present an application case of its software:
"The Archives of Lot-et-Garonne on the way to the IIIF, a model under study in Prismia ViSiON".
This presentation will be given by Isabelle Brunet and Stéphane Capot (Archives du Lot-et-Garonne), Marc Buset and Jean-Charles Moreau (EidoPolis)
The Prismia ViSiON team is pleased to announce that its abstract presentation of data structuring in native JSON-LD and IIIF format will be presented to the consortium, thus giving substance to what is today only a path of restitution and sharing that is still too limited.
Prismia ViSiON is to our knowledge the only application which presently converts the injected data (XML-EAD, lists, Universal) in the form of collections and manifests, while retaining the original meta-data structures. This allows, thanks to the addition of fields and indexes specific to the software, to manipulate, search in depth and display the data and media via the principles of the IIIF APIs.
We have decided to present to you, twice a week, technical aspects of the software, without revealing its secrets. Just to show you the modernity, power and speed, as well as a number of innovative tools and options.
The video spots are published every week on Linkedin, Youtube and X (formerly Twitter).
Don’t hesitate to like, repost or leave a comment!
As an official sponsor, the Prismia ViSion team was present at the "Conference of the Cities, Districts and wandering archivists" organized by the AAF on October 17, 18 and 19, 2023 in Valenciennes.
Three very interesting days with, conferences and round tables around the theme “with or without transitions? », developments in the profession and archival best practices.
A perfect organization giving the opportunity to meet and discuss the new challenges of the archivist occupation.
NextGen Viewer
Fluid Design & Single Page Application
Responsive design
'touch’ navigation for smartphones & tablets
User Interface settings, contents & controls
Continues reading flow or 1-document at the time
Extended search in context
ARK links, IIIF Manifest
Downloads for each document or collection (when authorized)
OCR & HTR over picture mapping
Direct folksonomy indexation
IIIF : collection, manifest & image
save to favorites and directly recall them in the viewer
Loading, Ingesting simulation, Data ingesting, Use data
Upload files in you private network storage ...
⦿ Onboard two-ways file manager, or SFTP connection
⦿ Upload images and medias, and also PDF files
⦿ Upload the Archives plans, with partial branches or complete, and possibly including the finding aids in ead-xml or PDF formats
⦿ Additional forms to use the meta-data as index
⦿ Your finding aids to be ingested : EAD-XML, METS-XML (Collections & OCR), CSV files (series) or JSON (IIIF collections & manifests)
Simulate the integration treatments, correct or complete the records files before commit.
Integrate your datas in any branch of the archives plan you want.
Create additional indexes and new views and switches for the data search.
Complete integration logs with full detail.
Erase, extend, replay any integration.
Data directly saved in JSON and translated as IIIF collections et manifests. Ready for IIIF external usage.
PDF finding aids split in text and preview thumbnail. Text becomes fully searchable.
Additional data you create, such as folksonomy index et editorial content become similarily searchable and shareable.
Search engine and supercharged research capabilities
The search bar to be used in the pages construction triggers a call to the search engine. This element is a nocode feature with full customization in terms of database path and displayed options.
The lists of results are fully customizable
Boolean switches can be used in advanced search formulas (+, -, | ).
The viewer includes specific advance search bar according to the context (OCR, IIIF, …)
The menu natively includes a search bar that will scan pages and the editorial contents.
a complete CMS : the easiest way to create web pages, virtual exhibits, ...
functions
Assets & benefits
Powerful homemade & nocode CMS
easy, scalable
Full customizable pages system.
flexible, direct
Pages, menus, graphical environment prototypes and 1-click publish feature.
autonomy, savings
real time Preview to assist you work in progress, prototypes and alternative versions.
autonomy, liberty
Visual Objects construction using a «responsive design» layout
liberty, portability
CMS specialized functions : additional objects for Archives & Culture
We included in the objects to be used in the page construction system some unique possibilities, that offer extended possibilities, liberty, precision, easiness, efficiency and usefulness.
Search themas
documents and medias incorporation, from your existing archives funds, anywhere in the editorial content or search pages
Additional forms using the index base upon the metadata
Search bar and items, focussing on the specified branches the archives plan, or a set of finding aids, …
Searching dates or period sliders
Default results areas & lists & forms: miniatures (3 modes), custiomizable spreadsheet, detailed views
Locations matching aid : Geonames with any governemental or public official list
Interoperability, Universality & multiple sharing possibilities
interoperability is defined as the possibility to make communicate several systems, devices or IT elements.
the communication is ‘physical’, when it implies the generation of files or print-outs such as :
Paper print
Spreadsheet (CSV Excel)
Image download (inclu. watermark or not)
Log files, with operations details
Ingested data and finding aids exports
the communcation is ‘virtual’, when it implies the possibility to access data and resources over the internet :
ARK Links (permanent links)
IIIF manifests and collections
Internal ‘prismia ViSiON’ URLs
OAI-PMH server-to-server transfers
OAI-PMH transfer protocol is currently widely used, it carries several limits because of its replication process from a server to another. It create duplicates of data and contents, and contributes to the current exeponential data inflation. Also, it implies a partial desynchronisation of the data until the next sync process, not mentioning the connectivity issues or rights authorisation control issues on the shared elements.
As of today, only the IIIF standard can isure the unicity, the universality et a real control on the access rights on the data and shared resources. however, the IIIF standard involves to translate any data in a compatible format (JSON) and to develop and propose WebAPI that would be able to deliver the information and the shared contents. Do you want to know more about IIIF ? Click here
Understand more about IIIF
The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is a set of specifications for interoperable functionality in digital image repositories. Designed by and for the cultural heritage community, the IIIF protocol improves user access to images and makes it easier to create rich collection websites with advanced media features.
1. Interoperability : IIIF allows Archives departments, cultural institutions, libraries, museums and other organizations to share their image collections in a standardized way. This means that users can access images from different sources consistently, regardless of the software or platform they use.
2. Deep Zoom: IIIF enables smooth, deep zooming into images, which is particularly useful for detailed analysis of high-resolution images, such as ancient manuscripts, maps, or artwork.
3. Annotation: The IIIF specifications support image annotation, allowing researchers, educators, and curators to create annotations to contextualize, comment, and enrich images.
4. Sharing image fragments: IIIF allows you to share specific parts of an image, which is useful for highlighting important details or for comparing visual elements between different images.
5. Multilingualism: IIIF supports multilingual metadata, making content easier to search and discover for a global audience.
6. Open Access: IIIF is based on open standards and can be implemented freely by cultural institutions. This promotes the dissemination of cultural and scientific content in an open and accessible way.
7. Collaboration: IIIF encourages collaboration between institutions to create an ecosystem for sharing images, metadata and annotations, which can enrich research and education.
8. Customization: Users can customize the display of images according to their needs, using tools and software compatible with IIIF.
Overall, the IIIF aims to improve the accessibility, interactivity and reuse of digital images, particularly those related to cultural heritage, academic research and education. It has a significant impact on how cultural institutions share their collections online and how researchers, educators, and the general public interact with these visual resources.
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Consortium international IIIF
EidoPolis presents to the IIIF community its IIIF native Software...
MorePrismia ViSiON
Online Software (SaaS) : websites creation dedicated to the cultural and archives organizations
designed by EidoPolis
Our offer
A fair and customizable
offer that fits your requirements
Prismia ViSiON’s offer is based on experience and interviews conducted with various clients and prospects of all sizes.
The observation is always the same: there is no standardized offer that is suitable for functional coverage, because either they are overflowing, or you have to make a significant leap to benefit from certain functionalities.
Furthermore, to our knowledge, there is no offer that takes into account the size of the entity concerned, in terms of audience or revenue (find out more …).
We have therefore imagined a completely modular offer, based on the following principles:
The three-year license, called 'Core', is calculated by adding a minimum flat, plus a % contribution to the size of the estimated audience, plus or minus an adjustment amount calculated on the wealth of the area in concern.
All our offers include initial training that is dimensioned and specific to the profiles, as well as a support period of 3 months extendable to 6 months after deployment.
A lot of functions were converted into options available for subscription, which reduced the price of the 'Core' License.
Online hard drives an servers are subscribed and hosted in your home country and allow for rapid scalability.
How to migrate
to Prismia ViSiON ?
Climbing up the peaks ? … certainly not !
Many people imagine that redesigning a portal is a complicated thing, which will involve a lot of different internal resources and mobilize significant hours of work for much smaller staff: true and wrong ! (find out more ...)
TRUE because you have to start by express and synthesize the needs. But this must remain a very pragmatical exercise and preferably reflect the strategic vision of the evolution of the broadcast functionality:
To make your portal a real success, you must avoid starting by mechanically copying the collection of points from a list of prerequisites whose use is not proven.
And because the operation is not repeated every year, we must strive to be part of a medium/long term cycle, from 5 to 10 years minimum, by turning to a resolutely modern tool which continually evolves.
WRONG because the technology significantly evolved over the recent years, allowing the emergence of solutions capable of being deployed quickly and easily, embedding customization functionalities and above all avoiding long and costly 'tailor-made' creation processes. ':
Portal designers who sell tailor-made services replace the time to develop new functionalities with the design of the UI: you must be vigilant on this point.
The divas of yesterday are not necessarily those of tomorrow, especially when it comes to the internet!
A new way to define the goals and the functions
So how will EidoPolis and its Prismia ViSiON software in making things simplier and demystify this seemingly long, painful and tedious process? (Find out more …).
Let’s start by raising the right questions:
what is your communication strategy: media or simple access ?
what audience are you looking for: Genealogy fans, Researchers, Archivists ? … is that all ?
what capabilities, on top of those you already have, do you want to acquire: a simple home page with a few information pages and targeted search forms or advanced search and interoperability capabilities with the possibility of creating all types content at any time ?
How often is your editorial content updated ? Sometimes or continuously over the time ?
And what about the updating of your archival tools ? are they punctual or permanently evolving ?
Are you ready to evolve ?
In the light of the answers you can formulate to the previous questions, Prismia ViSiON will become meaningful to you (find out more...).
The prismia ViSiON software possesses numerous practical, technical, financial and operational advantages over its competitors, including :
Ergonomy and getting started easyness
Tutorials at all levels
Easy and powerfull import of all formats: media, data
Data integration and conversion into universally portable JSON format
Complete creative autonomy: pages, forms, research, data, prototypes, exhibitions, aso.
Sharing and opening beyond silo logic
Power and speed
Scalability and adaptation
Measurable eco-responsibility
Budget control
Scheduling, projects
and deliveries ?
Beacause we are experienced in project management, we manage the migration process and we guide you, step by step, to carry out the implementation as a part of your team, until 'go live'... and even after ! (find out more … ).
We are identifying at least fifteen projects covering the preparation of infrastructures, data supply, including ARK links and collaborative indexing, training of administrative users, preparation of graphic environments and already existing pages and forms. or to exist, and finally the training of content administrators and editorialists.
For each sub-project, we favor project management in AGILE mode, with short 'sprints', because if the software has great flexibility, administrators and users must appropriate the codes and functionalities by being enrolled in an iterative feeding, review and validation process.
As sub-projects can sometimes be concurrent, or under the responsibility of different people, we estimate an implementation time up to deployment of between 4 months and 8 months, strongly depending on the volumes and options that were chosen.
Our additional services
Prismia’s C-Lab is the cross-functional organization bringing on board development experts: hard coders, project managers, UX designers.
This team is able to make the necessary corrections for the proper functioning and upgrade of the Prismia ViSiON solution, as well as its possible developments (find out more ….).
Studies & developments
Thanks to proven skills and know-how and development capabilities, we are clearly positioned as a software solution publisher and digital agency, rather than a simple web design agency: our job is to develop tools to create sites specialized, not simply creating sites from existing tools.
The nuance is subtle, but essential.
We master and ensure our application development in C, C#, C++ to run on IIS servers, or Linux in interaction with Elastic Search, and render all requests via APIs based on frameworks such as React JS with MaterialUI library or PHP. Everything is operated delivered using Apache and NGINX.
We also have good expertise in PostgreSQL, ORACLE, PostgreSQL and MySQL DBMS, which makes our technical palette truly multiple and adaptable.
So don’t hesitate to ask us about your support or achievement needs.
Diagnostics and Audit
As part of development or compliance projects, we have the partners and resources to carry out diagnostics relating to workflows, scalability (evolvability), GDPR, RGAA, Security, UX/ UI design.
So don’t hesitate to talk to us about it to accelerate your projects.
Prismia's G-Lab is the cross-functional organization bringing together software experts, graphic designers and technicians capable of building, supplying, manufacturing pages and forms and training all types of people in the use of the prismia ViSiON solution.
(find out more …).
Implementation Management & Works
During the implementation of a Prismia ViSiON software, we are able to support you in the process of creating pages, content, forms and other specific functions.
Going from draft to finalization, we use an iterative process of creation-test-correction-validation and create for you the expected user interfaces in a responsive model.
This obviously covers the implementation of the graphic charter, specific tutorials (web pages, PDF documents or video tutorials) or any other element specific to your entity.
Training
We provide complete support for administrators of all types: applications (with extended rights), content managers, editorial editors, etc.
Specific training is carried out for each advanced user profile of our solution.
Specific pages and video tutorials are present during installation for advanced users, visible only to them.
A set of templates is also delivered to allow rapid training in the use of the extended and business CMS.
Finally, support is available via a dedicated space, to answer your problems and questions. Web-conference support sessions ensure resolution and useful additional training.
Contact form & details
about EidoPolis
EidoPolis … back to the 'start-up’
Since the beginning of the 2000s, the Archimaine company has created 'portal' sites for the Departmental Archives. The evolution of its services has enabled the emergence of the Archinoë SaaS solution which has been enriched over the years with powerful 'business' functionalities: contextual viewer, Press OCR, OAI-PMH exchanges, etc.
After the acquisition in January 2019 of Archimaine by Hyxis, the Archinoë solution was upgraded to version 2.2.
The Archimaine company was then split into two activities: Digitization and the Digital Agency.
The Digitization activity was sold to the company Infoscribe at the end of November 2022, the company retaining the Digital Agency activities and was renamed EidoPolis.
EidoPolis continues to operate and maintain the Archinoë equipment and solution and is launching a brand new generation of SaaS software in the 1st quarter of 2023: PRISMIA ViSiON/Archinoë Evolution.
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The information collected on the site www.prismia.fr is only intended for the use of the company EidoPolis. They are only used to ensure the optimal functionality of the site, its consultation and attendance statistics and to transmit requests for information voluntarily made on the site.
No personal data is collected during navigation or when using contact forms, except those that you voluntarily communicate in order to request a response from EidoPolis. Your data is under no circumstances transmitted by EidoPolis to third parties for commercial purposes.
In accordance with law n°78-17 of January 6, 1978 relating to data processing, files and freedoms, you have a right of access, rectification, deletion of information which concerns you, which you can exercise by contacting: Prismia – Protection of personal data – 6 RUE LÉONARD DE VINCI 53001 LAVAL CEDEX – France. This is an individual right which can only be exercised by the person concerned in relation to their own information: for security reasons, the applicant must prove their identity in order to avoid any communication of confidential information concerning them to someone other than herself.
General Data Protection Regulations
As such, EidoPolis makes all necessary efforts to comply with the regulations applicable to the processing of personal data and, defined and described in:
⦿ Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016 applicable from May 25, 2018 (European Data Protection Regulation)
⦿ CNIL LAW no. 2018-493 of June 20, 2018.
We would like to remind you of some essential concepts:
⦿ Any information allowing the identification of a natural person directly or indirectly is considered personal data.
⦿ Freedom of consent is a fundamental right.
⦿ Everyone has inalienable rights concerning their personal data, which are: The right to information (articles 13 and 14), The right of access (article 15) also including the right to obtain a copy of the data which constitutes the subject of processing, The right to rectification (article 16), The right to erasure or “right to be forgotten” (article 17), The right to limitation of processing (article 18), The obligation to notification of the controller (article 19), The right to data portability (article 20), The right of opposition (article 21), The right not to be subject to an automated individual decision (article 22), The right to communication of a personal data breach
Consequently, to respect all the processes of previous and new rights provided by these Regulations and Laws, EidoPolis makes available to its Clients:
A telephone number for the Switchboard which will record the request in writing in a special register and which will request the contact details of the requester to confirm the request (email or SMS) and inform them of the action taken.
A generic email address web@prismia.fr and a dedicated subject in the contact form. These means must allow the processing of requests to exercise rights. EidoPolis will then keep you informed of the outcome of your request by one or other of the means available to it.
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