"I saw that it would be really easy to create a website that was a destination and not just an envelope around our digital collections."Steven Giese, Digital Projects Librarian, Des Plaines Public Library
Quartex caters for the needs of libraries, archives, and other repositories in both academic and corporate settings, by 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.
- Fully searchable, editable transcriptions generated in-platform with a single click.
- Cutting-edge artificial intelligence to make all your content discoverable.
- Remarkably high accuracy levels.
- OCR and OCR Transcription also allow 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.