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Pleade

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Original author(s)
  
AJLSM

Stable release
  
3.4

Written in
  
Java, XSLT, Cocoon

Developer(s)
  
AJLSM

Development status
  
Active

Operating system
  
Unix-like, Microsoft Windows

Pleade is an open source search engine and browser for archival finding aids encoded in EAD (an XML standard for encoding archival finding aids). Based on the SDX platform, it is a very flexible web application.

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History

The software was jointly started by the companies AJLSM and Anaphore and was originally intended for publication and dissemination only of archival research tools like EAD finding aids, but it has become a library portal and a medium for digital libraries.

Technologies

Pleade is published in GPL 3. It is based on the Apache Cocoon framework and it works with the search engine SDX.

It is able to publish and distribute the following format : EAD, CSV (internally converted to XML), XMLMarc, TEI, Dublin Core. Support for METS and ALTO is under active development.

Features

  • Customizable publication ;
  • Customizable index creation ;
  • Customizable search form ;
  • Simple and advanced search among publish documents ;
  • Federate search among different bases (e.g. EAD, METS) ;
  • basket (for database and for images), a search history, printing, etc. ;
  • document viewer supporting : JPEG, TIFF and for high resolution TIFF and JPEG2000 it use IIPImage image server ;
  • OAI-PMH repositories and expose them, by default, the format EAD, Dublin Core and Qualified DC ;
  • The viewer has a Pleade indexing module (paleographic) that can be used to permit correction of the OCR. This tool is a TEI export of data input. A workflow management allows annotators and validation records seized ;
  • Printing resulting and finding aids as PDF documents (with embedded images) ;
  • Compatible with standard archival format : TEI, BiblioML ;
  • Ability to import metadata from an ILS.

    • Pleade-Entreprise

  • Pleade-Entreprise extended features to others XML format, such as METS and ALTO.

    • Examples

    These are examples of websites based on Pleade:

    References

    Pleade Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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