Service Example: A faith-based organization sought to improve access to community information as a way of strengthening ties with members and other friends of the organization. The organization maintained multiple archival collections and libraries, newspaper collections, audio collections and art collections. Many of the collections were in foreign languages. The organization’s goal was to deliver a combination of current community information and historic information through a web-based portal. Electronic Scriptorium worked with the organization to create a “digital vision”, select and implement the digital portal then ensure that current and historic content was accessible to community members.

Service Example: A federal government agency responsible for processing thousands of unstructured documents a year implemented a computer aided indexing system designed to improve the accessibility of documents while simultaneously reducing the time required to manually review and catalog each document. Electronic Scriptorium actively participated in the on-going document training process and the quality review process. Electronic Scriptorium’s strong background in metadata processes and taxonomy design provide a firm basis for implementing and managing a successful automated indexing system.

Service Example: A multi-national branding company has assembled one of the largest and most extensive and valuable corporate memorabilia archives in the world. After purchasing a sophisticated digital asset management system to manage the collection, Electronic Scriptorium was contracted to digitize, catalog, preserve and value the collection artifacts. Our staff provides invaluable on-site collection management assistance and off-site digitization and metadata assignment services. Electronic Scriptorium welcomes the opportunity to act as an extension of the archive staff and constantly seeks to refine and improve its overall service offering.

Service Example: The distance learning program for a specialty university wanted to convert its standard correspondence coursework to fully searchable text format. Early in the process the university decided that its course creation and student support processes could be enhanced through better course content descriptors. Electronic Scriptorium developed and implemented a custom course tagging language that facilitated the reuse and manipulation of course materials. Course design and publishing were significantly streamlined while content sharing between courses and departments improved. Cost savings generated from the project created a positive return on investment for the university and decreased the time required to publish new course materials.

Service Example: An Ivy-League university partnered with Electronic Scriptorium to convert its 150-year newspaper collection to a full-text searchable, web-based mark-up format. The university’s requirement for 100% accuracy required that the newspaper be re-keyed from the original. Electronic Scriptorium designed a unique text encoding system that provided the university with maximum data flexibility while minimizing implementation complexity. All work was delivered with 99.995% accuracy using low-cost offshore keying combined with Electronic Scriptorium’s in-house project management and quality assurance staff. The online newspaper database, thought to be the largest source of free news information on the Web, has generated a huge level of interest for the university.

Service Example: A successful desktop web-graphics provider underwent explosive growth and success. The growth was driven, in part, through acquisition of its competitors. As each competitor was acquired, the acquired firm’s graphics were added to the existing database of marketable products. Electronic Scriptorium’s client soon found that its once precise database of terminology now had become nearly useless due to the non-standard ways that the acquired firms had originally described their individual graphic assets. Electronic Scriptorium helped the client develop its business strategy then developed an electronic thesaurus that regained the precision the client needed for success. The new thesaurus reduced the original set of terms from 20,000 to 6,000 resulting in significantly improved commercial success for its products.

Service Example: A world-renowned fine arts organization holds the information rights to a comprehensive art review published in the early 1970’s. The publication (in book form) is the authoritative source about the art form’s greatest master and his work. The publication is used by researchers around the world. Electronic Scriptorium developed a comprehensive search function for the organization’s website by converting the publication’s text data to fully-searchable database format. Electronic Scriptorium also worked with the publication’s original authors to update the aging textual information with current information for the database. The software delivered by Electronic Scriptorium has provided the organization with the tools to maintain the database as new developments occur.

Service Example: A leading non-profit purchased a sophisticated content management system but after two-years of use had realized only limited benefit from the system. Electronic Scriptorium performed a major review of the organization’s workflows and inter-departmental operations. Electronic Scriptorium modeled the existing processes then suggested ways to improve and streamline the workflows through better utilization of the organization’s content management system. Electronic Scriptorium’s understanding of both workflow efficiency and its relationship to content management technology were important to the overall success of the consulting project.