Eloquent Systems Intros SaaS Solution for Managing Special Libraries and Archives

Eloquent Systems said that it has recently re-packaged the base components of its Eloquent Librarian and Eloquent Archives products to create an introductory solution for Special Libraries and Archives.

 

With Eloquent, librarians, archivists and other knowledge managers can manage their collections while also allowing them to make their collections accessible to global Internet searchers.

 

Eloquent Systems has been offering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) hosting options, enabling librarians and archivists to get their collections up and running. The options eliminate the need for IT support.

 

For building the collection, the base components include the traditional tools. In addition, they also come equipped with the ability to manage digital content including oral histories, photographs, PDF's and other scanned documents and even video files.

 

Plus, components include access to Eloquent’s Internet publishing and search tools such as PublicSearch, a traditional search interface that allows external researchers to perform detailed searches on the collection.

 

Additionally, SpiderSearch is available, which is an HTML publishing agent that enables content to be indexed and searched by common search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft (News - Alert) Live.

 

Also available for an extra fee is VisualSearch, a geospatial search interface. It leverages mapping and location-based tools like Google (News - Alert) Maps to allow researchers, historians and archivists to understand information within a geographical context.

 

Merv Richter, president at Eloquent Systems, said in a statement that Internet technology has raised stakeholder expectations that information should be available from anywhere in the world at any time of the day.

 

“I expect that small institutions as well as very large enterprises will find this unique offering very attractive,” he said.

 

He believes that this new offering may be the only solution that small institutions will ever need while it enables large organizations to get off to a quick start.

 

Eloquent Systems develops solutions for archives, museums and specialized libraries. All Eloquent applications are built using Eloquent's WebGENCAT engine, a Web-based tool for powering large information collections. Eloquent solutions can be hosted by a client's internal IT department or through Eloquent's own hosting service.

 

Earlier this year, the company put together an informative 17-minute streaming video about public access into the holdings of some of North America's largest archival institutions, like California State Archives and the City of Toronto Archives, and also smaller sites such as Avid Center and Humanities Tennessee.