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Open Text Collections Server

Add-value to managed collections with high-performance search and retrieval

Designed for specialized research and archival solutions, Open Text Collections Server (formerly Livelink ECM - Collections Server, or BASIS) excels at managing hybrid content consisting of both documents and their associated descriptive metadata. These special collections are notable for their significant size, scope and enduring value. The content is dense, often with complex terminology where users benefit from search assistants including thesaurus browsing, search redirections, faceted navigation and result clustering.

While most business content is managed to control liability, other content needs to be treated as an asset. These assets represent your organization's intellectual capital and not only need to be stored in a vault to be kept safe, but they are assets that can earn you interest through the proper dissemination and reuse of that knowledge.

Used by major commercial and government information centers, Open Text Collections Server is ideally suited for:

• Research reports

• Scholarly output

• Technical document publishing

• Legislative tracking

• Archival collections

• Contracts and litigation

• Competitive intelligence

• Product catalogs

Click each of the following features to learn more about the key capabilities of Open Text Collections Server:

• Extensive indexing options

  Collections Server provides extensive indexing options, including word and phrase, context definition, date conversion, native lexical capabilities such as plurals control and Soundex. Since keyword indexes may not be appropriate for all data types, Collections Server is flexible enough to let you define the index type best suited for the data to guarantee successful searches.

• Robust term validation thesaurus

  The ANSI standard thesaurus is dynamically invoked at data entry for term validation with reciprocation, term switching and override. At retrieval, the Collections Server thesaurus provides search assistance through browse and select lists, term switching, disambiguation and search expansion of broader or narrower terms.

• Hit-to-hit navigation

  Collections Server provides hit-to-hit navigation of search terms inside each document, enabling you to move directly to the page that contains your search term without having to read every page.

• Index term browsing

  Collections Server enables users to directly browse the collection of indexed terms (data index & thesaurus), facilitating knowledge discovery.

• Concept Extraction

  The ability to analyze full-text content to identify and extract topical themes, companies and names. The values can be stored as metadata in order to supplement manual cataloging and improve search results and navigation.

• Compound fields

  Compound fields can be defined to store and discretely index lists of author names, companies, subjects, or other values that all apply to a single document. Unique to Collections Server, the ability to manage compound fields and differentiate each element is ideally suited to complex text database applications.

• Faceted navigation and result set clustering

  The Collections Server provides the platform to evaluate results and rank them according to content in context for maximum productivity and knowledge discovery.

• Traditional field searching

  The ability to search structured fields and text in a single query ensures precise retrieval over large collections of related content. Context awareness helps users find content about a specialized concept, not just documents containing the search words.

• Open architecture and standard interfaces

  There are several interface and application development options for building Collections Server applications. The Webtop Suite provides a full-featured Web user experience and API. It offers schema-aware default pages for search, display and data maintenance. Webtop is also a JDBC and Java development toolkit for rapid deployment.

• Hosting services for quick success

  If you have budget restraints or are challenged to acquire support from internal IT resources you might consider a hosted solution.  Open Text’s Hosting Services provide an alternative method of deployment to achieve optimum performance without the administrative and implementation costs associated with installing and managing an in-house system. Open Text hosted solutions look after all the operational aspects like backups, upgrades, configuration, performance, and scalability. Other benefits of hosting through Open Text include: lower total cost of ownership; no capital expenditure; faster deployment; access to expert, relevant advice; pay as you grow.

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