Company

Presentation

Arkhênum in a few words

• Established in 1999: 15 years of existence in 2014!

• 7 millions views digitized in 2013 (+10% increase vs last year)

• 2 production sites in France + numerous in situ workshop

• 48 employees specialized in cultural collection and digital conversion

• Activities: counseling, digitizing, data enrichment and digital libraries

• 500 clients have put their trust in us: Archives, Public libraries, museums (…) but also private entities (banks, luxury sector…)

A well established presence

France, USA, Guadeloupe, Guyana (Caribbean seas), Switzerland, Belgium, Cameroun or Mali…

A highly skilled company

Our team will accompany you throughout the various steps of your project:

• 5 sales peoples who will analyze your collections and counsel you

• 4 project managers who will follow your project and keep you informed

• 24 scanner operators specialized in the digitizing of cultural collection

• 4 quality managers who will validate the delivered images and production reports

• 3 engineers to ensure an optimized service delivery from digitizing to securing the images processed for your project

A comprehensive expertise

We can offer our clients a global or specific service:

Digitizing services

- Study of their collections

- Counseling and training

- Document preparation

- Digitizing of all size of documents

Data enrichment

- Data enrichment: OCR, XML METS, Dublin Core

- Indexing and segmentation

Share data collections

- Digital libraries

- Interactive and tactile media supports

- 3D books

Your project roadmap

Digitizing Control and backup

Batch_001

File 2

File 3

File 1

Delivery of the batch for client validation

Control by client

Batch validated

Quality not appropriate

Arkhênum back up

Final delivery of the images to the client

Project report

Digitizing in a 120° mode

Preparation of your project:

- Analysis of your collection

- Recommendation regarding the preparation

- Defining the names of your files, images

- File formats defined (TIFF, PNG, JPEG)

- Resolution, compression level

- Black and white or RVB digitizing

- Necessary software

- Data bases

- HTML links, XML, etc…

Follow up of the project:

- Production control

- Integration into existing databases

- Online, off-line access, digital libraries

- Saving on appropriate medias

Study of your documents

Digitizing in a 90° mode

Digitizing in a 180° mode

Each document will be

manipulated accordingly

Your collections will define

the scanners chosen

And not the other way around…

Hasselblad camera:

• Postcards

• Seals

• …

Scanners A4 A00

• Maps

• Manuscripts

• Registers

• Old newspapers

• …

We have more than 30 scanners available

Various format

available

TIFF, JPEG, PDF

Preservation of invaluable documents

High resolution

CD Burning Portable

supports

Share collections on Internet…

Once digitized, use the images

the way you want

Share collections in your offices

It’s the most advanced solution for sharing of all data:

- Standard paper documents (manuscripts, engraving, books, old newspapers…)

- Big size formats (maps, posters, building frameworks, …)

- Iconography (pictures, postcards, objects pictures, …)

- Industrial collections (patents, designs, …)

- But also videos, audios files

- Or even 3D object representations…

Our YooLib digital library

Words will be searched as well in the text of the images

Highlight of the word in the bibliographical details

Possibilities offered: a highly

efficient search tool

Detailled biographical notes (Dublin core) Image Wall in 3D

Categorization of your digital documents List of biographical notes with picture preview

An intuitive and exciting tool

An immersion into the

highest details of your collections

Leaf the documents as

if you had them in hand

Thank you for your time!

I remain at your disposal: Emmanuel Fremau e.fremau@arkhenum.fr + 33(0)6 27 16 08 73