DIGITAL LIBRARY SOLUTIONS - NextBrick Solutions

Today’s libraries are facing the shift from providing card catalogs and book shelves to adding web-based access to a more complete set of services. NextBrick can provide the strategy and implementation help libraries need to deploy next-generation digital library websites. Our knowledge architects can guide you through the entire implementation of improved search and browse access to important content for your users.

Key Digital Library Features

Some of the key features NextBrick has delivered for digital library customers include:

Information Communities: Identifying sub-communities within the library tasked with maintaining information about particular subject areas within the digital library, including addressing staffing and control issues.

Portal: If library is deploying portal technology, includes managing all aspects of portal selection, development, and deployment, including integration of core search and browse content access components.

Digital Content Selection: Addressing issues related to content selection, licensing, collection, and digitization from both internal and external sources.

Digital Content Production: Establishing processes for content storage and archival within the digital library, including archival techniques and organization workflow processes for acquiring content.

Digital Resource Management: Managing content lifecycle management requirements, including metadata creation and maintenance, content tracking, digital bibliographies, and digital object maintenance.

Content Taxonomy: A key process that NextBrick can assist in is building a document taxonomy. NextBrick’s taxonomy knowledge is deep, and our knowledge engineers can assist in building an information model and configuring automated tools to maintain your taxonomy over time.

Metadata: Also, as part of our digital library service an important deliverable is to ensure that robust metadata is applied to all documents, and metadata fields are updated and maintained over time. This requires both a technology solution as well as an organization focus and NextBrick’s domain knowledge can ease the pain of dealing with this challenge.

Portal and Community Features: Many libraries also want to add personalization and community features to their next-generation digital library. NextBrick provides a full set of implementation services and products that can make the library site more useful for end users and to capture knowledge from the user community. For instance, the NextBrick Expert Finder application makes it easy for users to get help from other users. Typically, digital library portals use a portal server technology for presentation and site management.