A digitized collection only makes sense once people can actually find what they are looking for. We build environments that turn a technical repository into a place that readers, researchers and your colleagues are happy to return to.
What institutions come to us with
- Data is scattered across several systems, databases or files. Each source was created at a different time, has a different structure and there is no shared view.
- Users need to know the exact spelling of what they are looking for and have to go through several interfaces before they get a result.
- The content is available, but the interface is outdated, hard to use on mobile or does not meet accessibility requirements.
- The idea of what could be done with the data is often limited by what the original system can do.
How we work
- We map the sources. We find out where the data lives, how it can be retrieved safely and what quality it is in.
- We set up the data flow. Depending on the situation, we process the data once or set up regular updates — the original systems remain the place where the data is created.
- We build the interface. We index the data and build a web application on top of it — public, or internal for authorized users only.
- We fine-tune based on real use. We watch how people search and adjust navigation, filters and results accordingly.
A typical solution includes full-text search, combined filters and faceted search, a unified view across multiple sources, search by meaning, recommendations of related records and central services such as citation generation according to ISO 690.
What you get
- One place to search, filter and connect data from different sources.
- Results without exact input — users do not need to know the catalog form.
- New connections that the original systems did not offer.
- An interface that works on mobile, loads fast and takes accessibility into account.
Where it already works
We have long been involved in developing the user interface of the open-source Kramerius system, used by more than 40 institutions in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. We are working on the new web client, the Kramerius Registry with an overview of individual installations, and a citation server for all digital libraries. For specific types of content we also build dedicated libraries — for example, Makarius makes sheet music from various institutions accessible and can search by a given melody.
Transferable to: specialist data portals, knowledge bases and public registers.
