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The National Library of Norway Selects Geneza's MediaINFO Viewer to Provide In-Browser Access to Rare Manuscripts & Newspapers.

MediaINFO becomes part of the library's tools in its quest to become one of Europe's most modern and exciting national libraries.

 

The Norwegian National Library (NB) has gone live with MediaINFO and, in addition to the original plan of displaying Norwegian newspapers, the Library asked the MediaINFO team to also handle all handwritten materials in its collection (letters, postcards, manuscripts).

 

The NB has a notable record as a pioneer in the field of digitising a large national collection. At the beginning of 2010 there were around 20,000 books made fully available on www.nb.no including 6.8 million digitised book pages, about 1 million newspaper pages, 50,700 photographs, 41,000 pages of manuscripts (written by luminaries such as the playwright Henrik Ibsen) and 1200 posters.

 

MediaINFO was chosen because of its reliability, ease of access, intuitive interface, flexibility and the ability to adjust to content management systems already in place. Many of the documents in the library's collection are now in digital form and MediaINFO makes them far easier to read, manipulate, and explore.

 

Sasa Mutic, chief executive officer at Geneza, said, "We are delighted to be working with as prestigious a client as the National Library of Norway. An increasing number of library professionals and managers that are digitising their collections feel that they are not getting all the benefits of content digitisation. The reason is that most content management systems are designed to manage websites and some files but not to display books that match the library user's expectations. MediaINFO Viewer is an ideal way to bridge that gap as it augments existing systems and websites."

 

About The National Library of Norway (Nasjonalbiblioteket)

The vision of the National Library is to be the Norwegian nation's memory and a multimedia knowledge centre at the forefront of modernity. The National Library of Norway is responsible for collecting, preserving and restoring the Norwegian heritage in order to make it available for research and documentation.

Sample of Mediainfo viewer on www.nb.no

www.nb.no/

 

 

The Slovak University of Technology Selects Geneza's MediaINFO Server for Dissemination of Digital Textbooks and Notes.

Faculty of Chemical and Food technology, one from the faculties of The Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, the most significant technical university in Slovakia, has selected Geneza's MediaINFO solution. This central European university will primarily use MediaINFO Server as the method of distributing digital books to its numerous students. Standardising on MediaINFO is going to help cut the cost, waste, and the physical constraints of the old paper textbooks and notes that are currently printed or bought.

 

Additional benefits are the 24/7 online availability of the study materials and textbooks, which can be then linked, forwarded via email, printed, saved, annotated, or even translated automatically. MediaINFO is going to help sweep away the printed study materials in the university as well as the strain they place on the university library facilities. Normally an initiative that helps contain costs can hardly be expected to improve educational outcomes, but with MediaINFO the Slovak University of Technology is poised to achieve just that.

 

The Chemical library (where implementation will take place first) was founded in 1955 and has developed into one of the most complete collections of chemical information in the world. The chemical library's leadership extends in being a technologically astute organisation, and a pioneer in digitisation in Slovakia. In this spirit the students will be the first to benefit from the ability to use social networking tools in conjunction with MediaINFO as well as the collaboration tools that MediaINFO provides. The ability to work on assignments together using modern web tools is something that the students are also likely to encounter in their future employment. Becoming conversant with modern ways of digital working is a skill sought by employers so this will indirectly benefit the students too.

 

Jozef Dzivak, the director of University's Chemical Library, said on behalf of the Faculty of Chemical and Food technology: "We anticipate that the successful implementation of MediaINFO will help us save time, effort and costs for ourselves and for our students. This is a good application of technology that solves a number of practical problems in the real world. We are making MediaINFO our university system because it maximises access to the study materials, makes them easy to search, print and study from. But one of my favourite outcomes is the first real reduction in hundreds of thousands of pages that are routinely thrown away and reprinted either because the textbooks have been updated or because the paper copies become damaged or lost. MediaINFO will help us do our bit for the environment".

 

Sasa Mutic, chief executive officer at Geneza, said, "Organisations today are challenged by inefficiencies and a lack of easy accessibility to their content both internally and externally. It is often underestimated how many resources are wasted in activities such as photocopying or printing information, especially time. MediaINFO helps optimise processes inside an organisation leading to a boost in communication, effectiveness, speedy and modern transfer of information irrespective of working hours, distances, or other constraints. The granular control of rights also allows the university to stay in control of its intellectual property".

 

 

About The Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ( "STU") & the Slovak Chemical Library

The STU is a modern educational-pedagogical and scientific-research institution and the biggest technical university in Slovakia. Since its establishment in 1937 more than 112,000 graduates have completed their education at STU and annually an average of 19,000 students study at the university.

 

STU currently consists of 7 Faculties and 2 institutes, offering accredited study programmes for Bachelors, Engineering (Master) and Doctoral study.

The Chemical library was founded in 1955 as the Library Centre at the Faculty of Chemical and Food technology Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. After various changes culminating in its current status since 2004 the library has become a major driving force for digitisation and computerisation of processes in the Slovak academic community.

www.schk.sk
www.stuba.sk

 

 

The Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (ISDC) goes live with MediaINFO

The ISDC is a governmental-academic organization that is devoted to the study of Swiss and international law.

ISDC also provides the European Commission (the administrative body of the European Union) with legal services including advice on the transposition of national and European legislation in different contexts. The ISDC's library in Lausanne Switzerland holds over 300,000 titles in approximately 60 languages. The institute selected MediaINFO to help fulfill its mission of providing the Swiss public, academia, and government with legal information and expert opinion often difficult to find elsewhere. Using MediaINFO is part of ISDC's strategy for modernizing access to the institute's periodicals, books and other publications. Visit ISDC MediaINFO, or visit the ISDC website.

 

 

 

Insights: JPEG 2000 for the practitioner.

the Wellcome Trust and the JPEG 2000 Implementation group hosted a jpeg2000 seminar in london which featured mediainfo as a case study of the format in action.

The seminar included explainations and discussion of technical issues that have an impact on the practical implementation of the format, and explore the context of how and why organisations may choose to use JPEG 2000. Geneza's CEO said: "We are pleased to share these insights with our customers and industry partners. We hope these insights will help promote cross-industry communication and collaboration on the strategic challenges facing our customers on the road to achieving effective digitisation of their collections".

 

 

PPUR goes live with MediaINFO

The Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes (PPUR) SELECTS GENEZA'S MEDIAINFO.

PPUR is the in-house publishing arm of world-famous l'Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). It is based in the campus of the EPFL in an idyllic setting on the shores of Lake Geneva. This year PPUR is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its foundation and it has launched digital versions of selections from its collection leveraging Geneza's technology to Launch PPUR MediaInfo. MediaINFO handles effortlessly items within the collection that would represent a challenge for any technology such as "The Treatise of Electricity", a monumental work in 22 volumes and over 8600 pages which is also the publication that helped establish PPUR 30 years ago. This and many other works are now available on the PPUR MediaInfo platform.

 

 

 

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US IN SAN FRANCISCO

ARMA International's 55th Conference & Expo

This year's ARMA conference attracted in excess of 2000 attendees who are practioners in the records and information/content management profession. We successfully announced the immediate availability of our MediaINFO line of solutions for the North American market. We showcased our fast implementation and integrated solutions. Additionally attendees were able to experience our unrivalled graphical user interface and test our solutions as well as discuss with us the latest developments in digitization, storage, and content management and the options open for their organizations. More on MediaINFO

 

l'emilie.org

SELECTS GENEZA'S MEDIAINFO TO REVIVE THE ARCHIVE OF THE HISTORICAL SWISS PUBLICATION

The 99 year-old newspaper celebrates its history by revisiting every single issue going back to its founding. Mediainfo makes l'emilie, visually searchable, zoomable and indexable as never before.

L' Emilie is named after its founder Emilie Gourde, who campaigned for female suffrage in Switzerland. The publication is supported -among others- by the Bibliothèque de Genève, The Swiss National Library, and the City of Geneva. Visit the L'Emilie collection

 

 

Geneza @ IFLA 2010

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

Geneza has once again joined with ASSY s.a. - 4DigitalBooks in a project to present libraries with most advanced solutions for their digital collections and alternative workflow for processing data. We were present at IFLA 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden, 10-15 August 2010.

We would like to thank all visitors for their time and feedback. Those who couldn't find time to visit IFLA, can see our live demos on one of the next trade shows or schedule a visit to our production facility. Contact form

 

DigiFlow

The complete Digitization Workflow

We are proud to present DigiFlow, the complete Digitization Workflow of printed media for Libraries and Archives. Together with 4DigitalBooks we have created an automated workflow covering everything from metadata preparation, automated scanning, process control, OCR, indexing and web presentation for the end users.

DigiFlow has flexible adaptive design and can adapt to specific library requirements. It is designed to be open and allow substitution and upgrading of services. Moving away from monolithic implementations will boost your productivity and allow simple integration for future.

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Domaine Public

Public Archive from Swiss publisher

An archive collection of DP 1963-1997 has been made publicly available using MediaINFO. Customized skinning was applied and only a subset of features enabled. You can read more about Domain Public at their homepage DomainePublic.ch and visit their free MediaINFO-powered archive at DomainePublic.info