About Ada
Archives, museums and libraries choose ADA because they want to manage and control in house all the elements and actors in a digitization process at very little or no additional cost.
More than just managing the digitization process, ADA gives you the opportunity to store your holdings online and to interact with your audience, to export your collections for special exhibitions or to any of the many open source catalogue management tools.
The ADA platform provides an advanced set of tools for management of a digitization process. Its workflows cover most typical use cases, including handling newly scanned documents, integrating previously scanned digital collections, with or without metadata, incorporating unprocessed archival collections, supervising crowd sourced metadata input, and more.
ADA can serve as a temporary document repository, offering controls for metadata mapping into Dublin Core meta tags.
ADA is built as a Drupal 7 distribution package, containing the Drupal core, a number of contributed community modules, several modules specifically built for ADA, the ADA theme, and a pre-defined configuration. The standard ADA configuration can be quickly installed on any pHp 5.3x / Mysql 5.x enabled web server, following the common Drupal installation procedure. Additional advanced features, requiring the server level installation of third party open source software are supported by detailed documentation.
ADA DIGITIZATION:
ADA predefines specialized interfaces for several platform specific roles:- archivist - management of digitization process and public outreach
- scan operator - scanning tasks
- metadata operator - metadata input tasks
- separate workflows for scanning, metadata input and quality control
- correction loops for all segments of the process
- strict division of tasks between predefined roles
- detailed overviews and statistics for all segments of the process
- flexible mapping into Dublin Core
- support for major digital document types and formats
- automated thumbnail extraction and watermarks
- supervised metadata crowd sourcing interface
- advanced faceted search
- enhanced user experience though personalized research interface
ADA PUBLIC OUTREACH:
ADA predefines specialized interfaces for two platform specific roles:- archivist - management of collection access permissions, researchers, researchers' requests and supervision of crowd sourced metadata input
- researcher - bookmarks, requests, comments and advanced search interface
- Hosted Services
- Custom installations at your premises
- Special exhibition packages (we have a large number of easy to use and powerful online exhibition packages - For the full list, please send an inquiry)
- In person and /or online training:
- ADA - creating and managing a digital archive
- In house and crowd-source meta data entry with ADA
- In house and crowd-source scanning with ADA
- Digital Archivist - creating online exhibitions and community outreach
| Software | FREE VERSION | HOSTED SERVICE VERSION |
|---|---|---|
| ADA-production and research toolsets preinstalled | INCLUDED FOR DOWNLOAD | INCLUDED |
| ADA-production and research toolsets INSTALLED | - | INCLUDED |
| Server components configurations and installation | - | INCLUDED |
| 1 year email/telephone support | - | INCLUDED |
| Training ADA-creating and managing a digital archives | - | INCLUDED |
| Training-In-house and crowd-source scanning with ADA | - | INCLUDED |
| Training-In-house and crowd-source metadata entry with ADA | - | INCLUDED |
| ADA Digital Archivist - community outreach | - | INCLUDED |
| ADA lab - essentially a guide to create your own perfect match digital imaging lab to support your own unique digitization process | - | INCLUDED |
- Customized installation and design
- Data migration
- Collection server creation
- Collection creation
- Specialized online exhibition creation
