MDA Software Survey
ADLIB Museum
ADLIB Information Systems
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Last updated: 03.2008
Brief Description | Adlib Museum is a comprehensive Collections Management application compliant with SPECTRUM procedures, and yet fully configurable to meet the requirements of individual Museums. Adlib Museum includes integrated imaging and comprehensive terminology control facilities. Public access searching is available through an optional XML and ASPX based web interface. |
Minimum Hardware | Minimum specification for computers that will run the software at an acceptable speed:
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Operating Systems and Networks | Adlib recommend Windows 2000, XP or Vista. |
Images | Each catalogue record may have multiple images attached. Adlib Museum automatically generates thumbnails from linked images and supports metadata recording to Dublin Core standard. Watermarking can be applied to images displayed on public access interface. |
Public Access | Provided through Web Browser interface. |
CD Publication | A complete Adlib Museum system may be copied to CD for distribution (subject to licensing). |
Internet | Adlib offer a flexible web application based on XML, CSS and ASPX technology. This application can easily be adapted to suit the design requirements of any organisation, offering an easy way to get your collections on-line. Portal sites capable of searching remote databases (Adlib or non-Adlib) can be constructed. Adlib supports OAI-MHP and search and retrieve web services SRU/SRW. Adlib Museum can also act as a Z39.50 server. |
Database Architecture | Adlib Museum offers the user a choice of database technology:
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Cost - Single User | All costs for Adlib Museum 'Standard' variant.
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Cost - 5 Users | Native Standard system from £5,800 Annual Support (15%) £870. Price is for concurrent read/write users. |
Additional Pricing Notes | Read only public access, either Windows interface (from £300) or Web Browser based from £2,250. In addition to the Standard Museum System, there are further versions available:
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Training | Scheduled courses run at our training centre in Swindon cost £200 per person per day. Details are available from their Website. Training can also be conducted on-site at a cost of £500 per day plus expenses. An optimum class size is six. |
Support | Scheduled courses run at our training centre in Swindon cost £200 per person per day. Details are available from Website. Training can also be conducted on-site at a cost of £600 per day plus expenses. An optimum class size is six. |
Museum Users and Sites in the UK | Adlib applications are used by approx. 220 organisations in the UK and Ireland. Around a third of this total are museums. Estimated total number of UK users (individuals) is 500-750. |
Museum Users and Sites Worldwide | Adlib applications are used by c1,600 organisations worldwide. Around half of this total are museums. Estimated total number of users (individuals) worldwide is 2,000–4,000. |
Largest Museum Site - No of Users and No of Records | UK: National Museums of Scotland. c500,000 records. 50 users. Worldwide: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 360,000 records, 36 users. |
Special Features | Adlib Software Applications are completely flexible in that all aspects of the system such as data structures, screen layouts, etc. may be changed by the customer using the system toolset supplied (full training available). This means that you never will outgrow your software as you can develop it to meet your needs. Adlib Applications may also be combined with each other, for example, by adding Adlib Library and/or Adlib Archive to create a full cross-domain collections management system supporting relevant professional standards. Multi-lingual capability comes as standard and the system also supports UNICODE (for non-Western character sets). As well as handling integrated text and images, links can also be made to other application files such as word processing documents, multi-media files, etc. from within Adlib database records |
Future Developments | Full Digital Asset Management (DAMs) capability currently in development. |
Technical Details
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Audit trails | As standard. |
Passwords | As standard - inherited from operating system. |
Picklist | As standard. |
Thesaurus for Data Entry | As standard. |
Thesaurus for Retrieval | As standard. |
Screen Designer | As standard. |
Report Writer | As standard. |
Modifiable Data Structure | As standard. |
Maximum Characters per Field | Field lengths are user definable to a maximum of 65,500 characters. Fields can be defined as repeatable up to 32,000 times. |
Maximum Records per File | Theoretical limit is 2 billion. Largest actual system in operation so far is 6 million. |
Digital Image Formats | 36 different file formats supported including all the common ones such as JPEG, GIF, TIFF, etc. |
Data Import Facilities | Tagged ASCII, delimited text, XML. Others available by special arrangement. |
Data Export Facilities | As for data import. |
For More Information Contact
Company Name | ADLIB Information Systems |
Contact Name | Sales Department |
Contact Phone Number | +44 (0)845 658 9482 |
Contact E-mail | |
Address | Berkeley House |
Company Website |
Software Developer
Company Name | ADLIB Information Systems |
Contact Phone Number | +31 (0)30 2411885 |
Contact E-mail | |
Address | Postbus 1436, |
Company Website |
