Full-run newspapers, issues, birth, marriage, death announcements
Cemetery headstone records, land use surveys
Video recordings, audio interviews
And more…
Describe
Templates help make description easy and thorough
Capture robust descriptive, technical and administrative metadata — over 70 available data fields to capture the level of granularity required for your needs
Simple location lookups make geo-locating objects for Google Map display and your data display in other applications like MapQuest and Google Earth
Assign copyright status and Creative Commons attribution licensing at object level
Auto-fill fields for subject headings, standard terms and roles help make quick, consistant description
Behind the scenes thesauri for subject headings and terms ensure search and discover compatibility across your collection and on the Web
Gather
Create virtual exhibits, educational resources and interpretive displays
Group records into sub-collections for showcasing themes, hot button topics, donor collections, or collections of cool stuff you want to feature
Link between records and internal or external resources to extend the end user’s experience
Enhance your 3D and image collections with pan-zoom and jp2 viewers (see video, left), linked detail images, simple animated GIFs, or multiple views
Text objects and compound documents can be browsed, page by page, layered with full text files for page-level discovery, pan-zoom files for rotating display of differently oriented page content
Audio files can be enhanced with cover art or your choice of thumbnail, then add sheet music, full text transcriptions and chapter by chapter hinting
Streaming video player means end users don’t have to download big files to view on their desktops—they view it right inside your VITA screen
Newspaper collections have calendar view for annual or issue-by-issue browsing, full page display with optional hit highlighting, and page-level linked index records and/or clipping view for articles or Birth, Marriage and Death records
