digilibris software supports the well-behaved document A well-behaved document is an electronic document that is both user friendly and library friendly. It has bookmarks and an interactive tables-of-contents and includes library-relevant information as part of the electronic document itself. User friendly means a document is easy to read and easy to navigate on any reading device and for which reading software is readily available. It is in an open format and does not depend on proprietary (paid) software for display, styles and multimedia content. It can be searched, has bookmarks (where applicable), an interactive table of contents with links to the correct target page and possibly an index, cross references and links to external resources. It is not encrypted but allows the user to print it out and to copy/paste portions of the text and add bookmarks and comments of his own. This applies not only to scientific papers, monographs and manuals but to all documents that one would consult or refer to rather than read in a continuous stream from cover to cover. Library friendly is a document that has useful embedded metadata which librarians, digital asset managers and individuals can exploit to classify a document with little or no manual intervention and that can be indexed for full-text searching. Some libraries prefer to keep the metadata of their documents in separate repositories for reasons of integrity, but since one does not exclude the other, embedding (a selection of) the same metadata directly into a digital resource, automatically makes this data available to third parties who download such resources to preserve locally in their own knowledge base and/or to consult offline. The new digilibris manager for user-friendly documents is a software tool that helps to organize collections of physical and digital objects, embed metadata in electronic documents and build tables of contents: - physical objects, electronic and web-based documents in one list - database in DCMI format and user defined attributes - PDF, EPUB and HTML formats supported for embedding meta data in Dublin Core format. - Classification data is read, modified and re-embedded directly into the file and thus becomes instantly accessible to users anywhere. - Meta data can be imported in MARC 21, MODS, EndNote and other formats - includes mini-browser for searching, viewing and downloading web content - generate library cards, lists and reports in a variety of formats - add bookmarks and tables-of-contents to existing PDF files - build interactive tables of contents for distributing a complete library on CD or DVD, even in several languages and sorted by title, topic, author or any other criteria. A free Demo-Version of the program can be downloaded from http://digi-libris.com/digi-libris_Installer.zip For more information please contact hotline@digi-libris.com Geneva, January 27, 2011
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