NOT EVERY ARCHIVE IS THE SAME. When choosing the best
Archival Collections Management Systems
like iARCH, you are guaranteed the freedom and flexibility to structure data exactly as you wish.
Archival Management Software
May 22, 2020
Archival Management System
iARCH is an
Archival Information Management System
specially designed to cater to the requirements of all types of modern archives. Academic, Corporate, Historical, Religious, Museums, Art Galleries etc.
It facilitates:
- Managing archived material information including multimedia content
- Showcasing archived collections to users in a secure manner
- Supporting research and preserving records for future use
iARCH is based on the prevalent international standard DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), approved by the Society of American Archivists.
iARCH provides special metadata formats for various types of materials like documents, manuscripts, artwork, music recordings, videos, interviews, photographs etc. Thus it helps in describing archived items for higher visibility and accessibility.
Organize your collections
You might have just a single or multiple collections. We support you in whatever way you want to work. You can define relationships between records and have as many levels of series or sub series as you want so that your collection is presented in the best way possible.
iARCH supports
- Hierarchical organization of collections e.g. Collection, file, folder, series, subseries etc.
- Composite items i.e. Parent-Child or Peer-Peer relationship between items.
- Providing suggestions, if new archive material can be part of an existing collection.
Strong, Flexible and Stable Catalogue
- Our Archival management software has a common interface across all areas like documents, audiovisual materials, artefacts etc that makes cataloguing and indexing easy to learn and use.
- Authority Control for fields such as Subjects, Keywords, Locations, Participants etc. maintains the data integrity.
- Pickups and suggestions reduce data entry efforts and ensure consistency and accuracy.
- Monitor the cataloging by adding remarks for corrections before making it live
- User generated and advanced query based customized reports
Handle Multimedia Content
Permissions are applied in a flexible manner so that you can decide who can see and download materials. You can thus protect your valuable data and yet make it available to your user community safely.
In iARCH you can,
- Manage multimedia content by specifying links or uploading actual files – single or multiple.
- Assign No Access/ Read Only/ Full Control permissions to each multi-media item.
- Create Photo Galleries.
- Reuse the same multimedia content for multiple archival items.
Search Portal
When you have something precious it deserves to be showcased through the iARCH Search Portal.
iARCH Provides
- Simple search and Advanced search interfaces
- Search Facets/Filtering and Suggestions
- Brief and detailed description of archived items
- Display of associated multi-media content with our inbuilt media players
- Full text indexing of documents
- A responsive portal that is easily accessible for mobile, tablet and desktop users
Reporting and Usage Statistics
- Generate reports for management or for internal purposes.
- Export reports in various formats like PDF, Excel etc.
- Analyse usage of the system by staff, researchers or other members
Custom Dashboards
- iARCH provides default dashboards that can be altered to suit your needs
No Strings Attached
- Add Unlimited users
- Add Unlimited records
- Add Unlimited collections
- Add Unlimited multimedia content
Technical Know How
- Customized tools and services are available for data migration from existing systems
- A unique blend of Standard RDBMS backend (SQL Server) and Fast search engine (No SQL)
In addition to basic modules, there are advanced modules like Digital Collection Management, Library Visitors Log, and many more. For more information, see Library Advanced Solutions
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