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VITAL provides every feature–ingesting, storing, indexing, cataloging, searching and retrieving–required for handling large text and rich content collections. VITAL takes advantage of technology standards such as RDF, XML, TEI, EAD and Dublin Core to easily describe and index an assortment of electronic resources. VITAL leverages the benefits of open-source solutions such as Apache, MySQL, McKOI and FEDORA™. VITAL conforms to common Internet data communications standards such as TCP/IP, HTTP, SOAP and FTP. Additional standards utilized include WSDL Web Services, OAI-PMH, Dublin Core, MARCXML, JHOVE, MIX (Metadata for Images in XML Schema), and SRU.
VITAL provides workflow extensions, management utilities, robust indexing, advanced searching capabilities, and specialized content displays to enhance the functionality of the underlying object repository architecture. Using web services, VITAL provides a mechanism for your organization to create tools, enhance the functionality provided by VTLS, or leverage the open-source community for future applications. Together, the package is known as VITAL. As the only product of its kind on the market, VITAL delivers a flexible and highly customizable solution for managing the digital resources of any type of information center.
Key benefits of VITAL include:
- Storage and management of any content format due to VITAL's repository architecture.
- Integration with existing systems through open, standards-based protocols.
- Ability to search the full-text content of PDF, DOC, RTF and other document formats.
- Ability to display high resolution imagery, multi-page documents, and specialized data formats.
- Ability to automatically capture preservation metadata and create long-term, citable DOIs.
- Integrated editors for easy editing of metadata.
- Customizable templates for display of content.
