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About presenting collections in Atlantis

Atlantis offers the capabilities to present heritage collections online through a public environment or a complete heritage website, allowing visitors to consult and search these collections and sources in a uniform and well-organized manner.

Presentation of collections

Atlantis makes the presentation of collections accessible and engaging online. It allows organizations to open up their archives to a wide audience, enabling visitors to easily search, discover, and navigate. This web environment integrates seamlessly with your existing website by adopting your unique design and corporate identity.

The online platform of Atlantis ensures that objects and archival records are presented clearly. Organizations can decide for themselves which collections are public and which remain for internal use only, such as for research or internal knowledge sharing. Visitors can effortlessly search, browse, and discover connections between objects, themes, and stories, increasing engagement with the material. At the same time, Atlantis offers a future-proof solution for sustainable data management and the web publishing of collections.

Collections accessible on any device

The online environment is fully responsive and automatically adapts to any screen size. This ensures an optimal and user-friendly experience whether collections are viewed on a desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Visitors always experience a consistent and clear presentation of the heritage, regardless of the device used. Digital accessibility requirements (WCAG) are also fully integrated.

Collection portal: One search point for all collections

Bring together collections from different sources. Our comprehensive collection website software makes it possible to aggregate data from third-party systems into a single environment. This creates a uniform and intuitive search experience for both staff and the public, allowing them to access the entire, aggregated heritage with just a single query—regardless of where the information originally resides.

Complete Heritage website

In addition to providing an online presentation solution, we are also your partner for the realization of a complete heritage website. From design and technical development to hosting and maintenance. An Atlantis heritage website utilizes the latest technologies and standards to offer visitors an optimal experience, while strictly adhering to the latest web guidelines for digital accessibility.

Use cases

Browse through various topics related to the online presentation of collections within Atlantis.

WCAG Digital Accessibility

The fully WCAG-optimized collection presentation in Atlantis guarantees that heritage is accessible to every visitor, regardless of disability, in a technically seamless and understandable manner.

Linked Open Data portal

The Atlantis Linked Open Data portal displays available Linked Data sets and offers various options for utilizing them.

Bringing together collections from external systems

Collections from third-party systems are brought together through Atlantis so they can be presented collectively to colleagues or the public.

Integrated request function for public services

Via an integrated shopping cart feature, visitors can easily request access to records, arrange loans, and order reproductions.

Engage the public in describing collections

Thanks to features such as annotations, stories, and crowdsourcing, the public can actively contribute to describing the collection.

Direct discoverability at the text level

Documents processed with OCR are fully searchable by content within Atlantis. When a search term is found, hit highlighting is applied, and the file automatically opens to the correct page.

Location registration

Record the work location and location history to provide instant visibility into object movements during the cataloging process.

Navigating the archives

The hierarchical tree structure in Atlantis facilitates navigation through archival schemas by dynamically presenting the logical connections between archival fonds, series, and file numbers.

Presentation of collections in Atlantis

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Atlantis is modularly built: choose from three licensing models and assemble your ideal solution with additional modules and services tailored to your collection types. This ensures you get exactly what you need—no more, no less.

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Design of the public environment

The organization's own design and corporate identity can be applied to the public environment, creating a single integrated whole with the existing website.

Fully responsive

Public environments and Heritage websites from Atlantis are fully responsive and therefore usable on desktop, laptop, tablet, and smartphone.

Visibility of the collections

Within the management environment, you determine which collections are visible in the public environment, taking into account configured access restrictions as well as copyrights.

Search and navigate

In addition to searching via search fields or a map, there is the option to navigate through archival overviews and inventories.

WCAG

Our heritage websites and public environments can be delivered fully digitally accessible.

Anotations

Visitors to the public environment have the opportunity to leave comments or corrections.

Creating digital files

Visitors who register or log in with an account have the option to compile digital files. Here, they can bundle objects for themselves within a digital file.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about presenting collections, including concise answers. Can't find your question? Please contact us.

Can a watermark be displayed on digital images?

Within the management environment, presentation profiles are configured and linked to publication settings. A watermark, as well as the resizing of images, are part of these settings.

Are APIs available to build a custom collection presentation environment?

Atlantis offers its own APIs that are available to retrieve public collection information. With these APIs, it is possible to build a public environment yourself or have it developed by a third party.

Can a visitor create an account in the public environment?

This is possible and, depending on your own insights, can provide adjusted rights within a public environment. This can mean that registered users are able to view a larger part of the collection.

Is a public environment suitable for the PCs in a reading room?

Highly suitable; for example, based on the IP address of the reading room, it is possible to display a larger set of records without requiring a user to log in.

Is it possible to offer requests for inspection, or other request and download functions through the public environment?

Yes, this is possible through the Requests service. This service features a shopping cart function for requesting consultations, handling loans, and ordering reproductions. Optionally, this can be expanded with functionalities for electronic payments and direct downloads, where all requests and orders are centrally managed and processed through the Atlantis management environment.

Can I decide for myself what is published online?

Through the Atlantis management environment, you can comprehensively configure what is and is not visible online. It starts with a publication toggle for each individual object. In addition, there are settings to determine which specific fields are visible or hidden from the public. Furthermore, search, filter, and sorting options can be customized per collection type. Finally, access restrictions—such as copyrights or privacy regulations—can automatically block or restrict publication when necessary.