Quartex caters for the needs of libraries and archives in delivering a platform that is easy to implement and intuitive to use. It supports diverse user needs and workflows, providing a robust and scalable platform solution.
Audio visual hosting and transcription
- Supports image types, as well as audio and video files.
- In platform streaming with closed captions.
- Advanced search and filtering capacity.
- Ability to navigate within transcribed assets via timecoding.
- Bulk uploads possible.
Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR)
- The only platform solution with built-in HTR functionality.
- Cutting-edge artificial intelligence to make all your content discoverable.
- Remarkably high accuracy levels.
- OCR also allows all printed text to be fully searchable.
Build digital exhibits
- Built by editorial and development teams with experience of creating award-winning digital products.
- Developed in consultation with leading libraries and archives around the world.
- An intuitive, out-of-the-box platform with no need for specialist knowledge.
- Easy ingest of metadata from existing platforms and repositories.
Customizable
- Colors, logos and banner images are all individually customizable to reflect your branding.
- Sophisticated navigation and styling.
- Responsive front-end design allows full functionality on mobiles and tablets.
- Allows webpages to be edited and independently published.
Showcase Collections
- Supports easy addition of editorial content and contextual information.
- Allows PDF download and export of images and data in multiple formats.
- Curate research with advanced in-platform cataloguing options and support of metadata standards.
Fully Hosted
- Utilizes a cloud-based hosting solution.
- Secure data storage through a fully load balanced and scalable cloud-based hosting solution.
- In-platform creation of A/V digital surrogates.
- Features HTTP over Transport Layer Security.
- Optional Two-factor Authentication.
- Support for all browser and software upgrades.
Collection Management
- Tiered access management structure.
- Administrator review of cataloguing progress and collection building.
- Customizable dashboards provide reports on asset type, status and storage.
- Usage statistics: site analytics available for each published collection.
- Digital assets can be published to multiple collections.
- Soft delete function.
- Supports use of established and bespoke controlled vocabularies and thesauri.
Discoverability
- Search Engine Optimization makes all published collections discoverable.
- Capacity for full text search across manuscript and printed material.
- Advanced search and filtering capacity.
- IIIF compatible image viewer.
- Cross-platform search functionality.