Thursday, March 17, 2011

DIGITIZE
-- Material Urgency
-- Workflow Tracking

DELIVER
-- Byond the DAM
-- Archivision in LUNA
-- VRA/ARLIS and ACRL Conferences

Material Urgency

Early 20th century negative collections contain nitrocellulose- and cellulose acetate-based films that are at a significant risk of irreversible deterioration and information loss. Prioritizing this content for digitization is of utmost importance.

At Luna, we have the knowledge and experience to safely and expertly capture both nitrocellulose- and cellulose acetate-based films. Recent and current projects involving these materials include those for Loyola Marymount University, the Los Angeles Police Historical Society, UCLA, San Jose State University, and the Long Beach Firefighter’s Museum.

Contact us for a quote and to learn more about the wide range of digitization services we offer.

Workflow Tracking

Online sharing of documents is easier than ever before and we now utilize Google Docs to provide select clients with a live view of the multi-stage projects that we are managing for them. Complex projects, especially those involving a range of service options, benefit from the transparency of web-based tracking.

This is another example of how our professional and affordable digitization services will make your projects a success.

Beyond the DAM

Digital Asset Management systems are designed to help an organization manage their assets. But once content has been “managed”, then what?

Then you need a powerful, dynamic system that can do more than just manage.

Our upcoming Insight + LUNA software release gives you more flexibility in how you manage your content than the average DAM. Add content to a repository-like container, or create structured collections based on metadata templates, it’s your choice.

Once content has been added to the system, the LUNA browser provides the most powerful front-end for displaying content available today. With Web 2.0 tools, sophisticated authentication tools, seamless zoom controls, and a lot more, your digital content is managed and mastered.

Media management flexibility – centrally manage media outside a collection structure
Web-based toolset – no client software downloads
Cataloging tools – support for complex relational and hierarchical data, auto-complete, global search and replace, record merging, web-based authorities, XML import/export, bulk record edit
DAM features – watched folders, automatic metadata extraction, image rotation, workflow
Support for Apache Shiro – a powerful Java security framework with an easy to use API
And much, much, more...

To learn more about these upcoming features visit our website and request a demo.

Archivision in LUNA

The Archivision Digital Research Library is now available in LUNA and is available for preview at www.lunacommons.org. The Archivision Digital Research Library is comprised of 47,000 images of architecture, archaeological sites, gardens, parks and works of art with broad appeal in humanities education spanning the globe and all time periods, with each Module offering a mix of historic and contemporary material.

Viewing Archivision in LUNA provides users with a powerful way to explore, and share this important content while also providing seamless access to other LUNA collections.

Archivision now offers two access models – Purchase (license) the images or subscribe to them on an annual basis. With either option, delivery is available in LUNA. Visit www.archivision.com for more details.

VRA/ARLIS & ACRL

We’ll be hosting a User Group session at the joint VRA/ARLIS conference in Minneapolis in March and then exhibiting at ACRL in Philadelphia. If you’ll be in attendance and would like to schedule a one-on-one meeting please contact us.

Please contact us at sales@lunaimaging.com or call 1.800.452.LUNA (5862) for a quote, a demo, or just a chat.