Jouve: for a digital access to the cultural patrimony

Institutions, (libraries, museums, archiving centres…), companies and editors are confronted today with the same challenge: how do they preserve and enhance their cultural patrimony, whilst facilitating its access and consultation by the public? The large-scale conversion to this content has already started. Today it is a core issue.

This patrimony is often precious; it contains more and more documents which may be large, old, heterogeneous, fragile, requiring professional solutions, adapted to the particularities of this content.

Specific requirements

Relying on its long experience with libraries, archiving centres and museums, Jouve satisfies its customers’ new requirements:

• preserve a trace of the cultural patrimony lasting longer than its physical conservation,
• physically conserve a patrimony by distributing it in digital form,
• facilitate pertinent searches in the multitude of documents and texts,
• enhance an on-line patrimony,
• ensure the digital conservation of old documents for legal or functional reasons…

From digitisation to diffusion

You want to bring your originals to life , enhance your iconographical content? Jouve offers a solution that is complete, configurable and adapted to all your content, from a scanning system and the enhancement of your digital documents.

• assistance in process optimisation,
• project management,
• digitisation of fragile and precious documents,
• post-scanning processing and renovation of old documents,
• cataloguing (by creation or derivation and localisation of notices),
• OCR treatment (complete or partial, with or without links),
• publication, harvesting, and indexing in search engines,
• Internet enhancement,
• document management platform.

Configurable services

A full made-to-measure offer: in order to answer to specific requirements of its customers, Jouve has complete document management solutions.

They include a federating computerised portal and Open Source software blocks. Their modularity allows the solutions to be adapted to specific requirements. What is more, licensed for a unique platform, these modules guarantee the durability and the autonomy of Jouve’s solutions in the face of market evolutions.

The Group continually looks for new technology in order to obtain the best catalogue and metadata formats. Jouve offers high added-value solutions, such as the creation of notices (including “open-leaf”) and on-site digitisation.