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Image and digital media asset management software, suitable for building an image
database, online image or picture library system, or a secure searchable archive

iBase Media Services Ltd are specialists in complete solutions for image database systems and the storage, organisation and retrieval of media files - still and moving images, sound and graphics displays. These are designed primarily for commercial picture libraries, heritage and culture organisations, and businesses wishing to catalogue and manage their digital assets and to make them available to view via standard browsers on the Internet or an internal network (intranet). If required mechanisms to download or purchase digital files can be included in the browser based systems.

1. iBase systems allow you to
2. iBase Manager and Net
3. iBase Manager
4. iBase Net
5. iBase Quartet

iBase systems allow you to:

• Organise and manage collections.
• Catalogue media for multiple application use.
• Organise and manage web site media.
• Create revenue-generating opportunities.
• Save staff time on searches and requests.
• Publish a searchable image library to the web or intranet.
• Organise and manage photographic records and other media.
• Perform collection-wide searching in seconds.
• Remote access into corporate media libraries.
• Keep secure records / archives.
• Archive marketing material.
• Distribute digital teaching aids.

Several iBase clients are marketing departments, who appreciate the value and convenience of knowing exactly where to find their media assets, which are structured and keyworded enabling search and retrieval whenever required - 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

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iBase Manager and Net - are a suite of products designed to work in concert or individually for:

• Cataloguing and indexing digital assets e.g. images, audio files, video clips and other files, such as Word documents and PDFs and associating them with text data in a searchable database.
• Making them available to view and, if required, download and purchase via standard browsers on the Internet or an internal network (intranet).

Information on how iBase Manager and Net work together (Adobe Reader required).

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iBase Manager - is a Windows application providing a set of tools for creating and managing a database of images and other digital assets with associated descriptive information.

Manager supports all industry standard image, video and sound formats. It is a fast, powerful and elegant solution enabling users to organize, store, search and retrieve information quickly and efficiently.

It makes organizing, finding and displaying any item within the database easy and efficient. Images can be stored at multiple resolutions, keyworded and associated with other items in the database.

More detail about iBase Manager.

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iBase Net - is a browser technology based system for displaying digital assets on a web or intranet site, with many standard features:

• Home page banner, colours, text, and menu bar labels customisable within standard layout constraints.
• Multi-media capability, e.g. sound and video clips.
• Collections, electronic exhibitions, best seller's gallery etc.
• Multiple views of 3 dimensional objects.
• Search by free text; subjects; indexes; collections; view all.
• Advanced search.
• ... and many more.

Optional modules include - e-mail an image file or a link; user login and administration; Image download; my folders or lightboxes with which registered users can save links to any images they might want to research again at a subsequent visit; image ordering and e-commerce.

More detail about iBase Net.

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iBase Quartet - is a browser based system for managing digital assets - typically images and similar resources. Because it is browser based, all that PC and Mac users need is standard browser software - such as Microsoft Internet Explorer - and network or Internet access to the server on which iBase Image Manager is deployed.

It is the ideal system for organisations requiring highly flexible departmental security options, and the ability for authorised users to upload media and metadata from anywhere in the world, then being immediately available to authorised users on the web or an intranet. Clients using iBase Image Manager include British local authorities and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Boston, Massachusetts.

Quartet's features include:

• Set up, delete and amend user rights within the system.
• Automatic common metadata and keyword (categories) attachment on image import.
• Group common images together, for perhaps visibility and use by specified groups of people or individuals.
• Control of what images can be made available to which users for download, printing and ordering.
• Formatting of printed output a PDF page which contains pre selected resolutions and metadata fields.
• Advanced search.
• ... and many more.

More detail about iBase Quartet.

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For further information on iBase products please contact us at sales@ibase.com or call +44 (0) 1943 603636

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