Max’s browser based transcription tool THEMIS manages the transcription and quality assurance of digital images, producing structured data that can be exported to any existing system. THEMIS is both a production and a project management software platform. Fully hosted and managed by Max, THEMIS ensures that all stages of a digitisation project are managed from within a single platform. It also allows our customers to approach digitisation projects differently, if appropriate: for instance, using THEMIS it is possible to capture and ingest the digitised images prior to cataloguing and indexing the material.
As well as being employed in the transcription of 6.5 million specimen documents for the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, THEMIS has been used for the transcribing millions of archival documents for The Royal Society, Lloyds Shipping Register and The 1921 Census.
THEMIS can integrate with our digitisation production path or with any existing skeletal cataloguing data and with authority files for countries, localities, and any other existing authority lists.
THEMIS: A New Approach
Changing the order in which we digitise has two major benefits: first, it allows access to the digital images to be opened up sooner; second, the cataloguing and indexing process is far more efficient – the relevant data fields can be entered against the corresponding image on a screen, directly into a structured database, rather than having to key into a spreadsheet against the physical item.
Managed stages within a typical digitisation project using THEMIS
- Numbering
- Capture
- Conversion
- Splitting
- Cataloguing
- Transcription
- OCR
- QA
- Final output, exported directly from THEMIS, in a range of formats
Differentiators
- Web-based
- Remote user access (if appropriate)
- Audit trail for user activity
- Ability to revert to an earlier version of an edit
- Database customisation
- UI customisation
- Template creation for automated data extraction
- OCR accuracy statistics
- Project progress reporting to item level
- Project management reporting
THEMIS for Cataloguing
During the indexing and transcription process, THEMIS is able to access and accommodate any existing catalogue information while allowing the addition of further metadata post digitisation. THEMIS makes the cataloguing and indexing process far more efficient – rather than matching spreadsheet records against physical items, THEMIS allows the cataloguer to enter the relevant data fields directly into a structured database against the corresponding image.
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