Basis database

About OpenText Collections Server Collections Server (formerly Livelink ECM – Collections Server or BASIS) provides high-performance search and precise retrieval to increase the value and utility of managed research and archival collections. Collections Server excels at managing hybrid content consisting of documents and descriptive metadata with unified indexes to facilitate search across both types. Users of specialized content with dense subject-matter and complex terminology also benefit from rigorous data integrity standards as well as search assistants like thesaurus browsing, faceted navigation and result clustering.

Add-value to managed collections with high-performance search and retrieval

Designed for specialized research and archival solutions, OpenText Collections Server (formerly Livelink ECM - Collections Server, or BASIS) excels at managing hybrid content consisting of both documents and their associated descriptive metadata. These special collections are notable for their significant size, scope and enduring value. The content is dense, often with complex terminology where users benefit from search assistants including thesaurus browsing, search redirections, faceted navigation and result clustering.

Benefits

Reduce research costs and improve productivity
Contain development costs
Improve information access
Manage massive collections of intellectual capital
Elevate data integrity standards
Increase the value and utility of legacy content

While most business content is managed to control liability, other content needs to be treated as an asset. These assets represent your organization's intellectual capital and not only need to be stored in a vault to be kept safe, but they are assets that can earn you interest through the proper dissemination and reuse of that knowledge.

Used by major commercial and government information centers, OpenText Collections Server is ideally suited for:

Research reports
Scholarly output
Technical document publishing
Legislative tracking
Archival collections
Contracts and litigation
Competitive intelligence
Product catalogs

Features

Extensive indexing options: Collections Server provides extensive indexing options, including word and phrase, context definition, date conversion, native lexical capabilities such as plurals control and Soundex. Since keyword indexes may not be appropriate for all data types, Collections Server is flexible enough to let you define the index type best suited for the data to guarantee successful searches.
Robust term validation thesaurus: The ANSI standard thesaurus is dynamically invoked at data entry for term validation with reciprocation, term switching and override. At retrieval, the Collections Server thesaurus provides search assistance through browse and select lists, term switching, disambiguation and search expansion of broader or narrower terms.
Hit-to-hit navigation: Collections Server provides hit-to-hit navigation of search terms inside each document, enabling you to move directly to the page that contains your search term without having to read every page.
Index term browsing: Collections Server enables users to directly browse the collection of indexed terms (data index & thesaurus), facilitating knowledge discovery.
Concept Extraction: The ability to analyze full-text content to identify and extract topical themes, companies and names. The values can be stored as metadata in order to supplement manual cataloging and improve search results and navigation.
Compound fields: Compound fields can be defined to store and discretely index lists of author names, companies, subjects, or other values that all apply to a single document. Unique to Collections Server, the ability to manage compound fields and differentiate each element is ideally suited to complex text database applications.
Faceted navigation and result set clustering: The Collections Server provides the platform to evaluate results and rank them according to content in context for maximum productivity and knowledge discovery.
Traditional field searching: The ability to search structured fields and text in a single query ensures precise retrieval over large collections of related content. Context awareness helps users find content about a specialized concept, not just documents containing the search words.
Open architecture and standard interfaces: There are several interface and application development options for building Collections Server applications. The Webtop Suite provides a full-featured Web user experience and API. It offers schema-aware default pages for search, display and data maintenance. Webtop is also a JDBC and Java development toolkit for rapid deployment.
Hosting services for quick success: If you have budget restraints or are challenged to acquire support from internal IT resources you might consider a hosted solution. OpenText’s Hosting Services provide an alternative method of deployment to achieve optimum performance without the administrative and implementation costs associated with installing and managing an in-house system. OpenText hosted solutions look after all the operational aspects like backups, upgrades, configuration, performance, and scalability. Other benefits of hosting through OpenText include: lower total cost of ownership; no capital expenditure; faster deployment; access to expert, relevant advice; pay as you grow.