Login
- VITA is web based, so you have anytime anywhere access to manage your collection through your favorite browser
- Secure log in
- Different levels of user access for data management
Upload
- Easy upload screens for single and multiple files, depending on your task:
- Scrapbooks, postcards, photos, minutes books, stereographs, paintings, maps
- 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 photo essays, 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
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Display
- Enhance your 3D and image collection display with zoomify display (see video, left), linked detail images, simple animated GIFs, or multiple views
- Text objects can be browsed, page by page, layered with full text files for page-level discovery, zoomify files for rotating display of differently oriented page content
- Audio and video files can be enhanced with cover art or your choice of thumbnail, then add sheet music or full text transcriptions and chapter by chapter hinting
- Top notch video display of streaming video 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
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