Pleade

Pleade
Logo de Pleade
Original author(s)	AJLSM
Developer(s)	AJLSM

Stable release	3.4
Development status	Active
Written in	Java, XSLT, Cocoon
Operating system	Unix-like, Microsoft Windows
Available in	French, English, German, Chinese
Type	Digital Library
License	GNU General Public License
Website	www.pleade.com

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.

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

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:

Archival portals
Portals documentary
- Michael
- Digital Heritage
Digital Libraries
- Digital Library of Lille
- Lille III
- BNF: Archives and manuscripts (French National Library)

Related resources

References

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