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Insight's powerful features
allow your raw images to become a dynamic and searchable collection.
The Feature tour covers some of the most popular features of the Insight
and Inscribe products.
You can also take the following Flash Tours: (Requires Flash)
Work with Visual Collections- Insight Browser and Java Client
The Insight Client consists of two workspaces:
- the Insight Group Workspace focuses on the search, retrieval, and organization of digital content,
- and the Insight Image Workspace focuses on interaction and evaluation of one or many digital images and associated data
- Find Media and Data
Insight's search features allow you to quickly find the media
and data you need in even the largest collections. Insight supports
simple keyword and/or metadata field searches, or advanced searches
across multiple keywords and fields using Boolean operators.
- View Media
View images in extraordinary detail and playback audio and video files
in Insight's Image Workspace. Tools available include zooming, panning,
measurement and scaling, notes and annotations, and metadata viewing. With integrated native support
for JPEG 2000, the finest detail is made available at the fastest
possible speeds without the need for plugins.
- View Data
Whether browsing or searching collections, playing back a presentation
or movie, or viewing high resolution detail of a single image, data
is never more than a click away. Data can be viewed in a collection's
native metadata template, or in published standards such as
Dublin Core and VRA Core 3.0.
- Create and Export Dynamic Presentations
Insight presentations can be exported to HTML,
Microsoft's PowerPoint on Windows, and Apple's Keynote
on the Macintosh.
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| The Insight Group Workspace |
Two images in the Insight Image
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Quickly and Easily Build Visual Collections - Insight Studio and Personal Insight
Insight Studio supports batch media and data import for small or large collections. Personal Insight allows you to catalog your media directly after import. Key features:
- Support for custom and standard metadata templates
Insight provides powerful metadata template and cataloging support.
Build collections using preexisting cataloging templates such as Dublin
Core and VRA Core 3.0. Use Insight to modify a preexisting
template, or create a custom template from scratch. Once created,
templates can be reused across one or many collections.
- Importing Media
Simple, easy to use tools allow administrators and end users to
add audio, video, and image files to their collections. Insight automatically
handles complex media processing tasks such as thumbnail and derivative
image generation. Insight offers superior performance when processing
and viewing high-resolution images, using native support for JPEG
2000 (no plug-in needed).
- Importing Data
Insight supports batch data import. Use wizard-based tools to
match tab delimited text files to any pre-configured or custom metadata
template, and efficiently create thousands or tens of thousands of
new data records.
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| Insight Studio — Media Processing |
Insight Studio — Build your own
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Insight Studio — Import Data
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Manage Visual Collections - Inscribe™ and Personal Insight
Inscribe
Inscribe supports repeating values, complex data relationships, required fields, controlled
vocabularies, field formatting, and much more.
Along with rights management, Inscribe provides process management,
allowing the content publication process to mirror that of an organization's
instead of being governed by the tool.
Personal Insight
Owners of an Insight Personal Collection can edit any existing data record, or create a new record, using a simple editor built into Insight.
Share Collections and Access Others - Insight Collection Registry
Insight is more than a software application; it represents a community
interested in sharing content as well as ideas. With Insight's network
architecture, members of the Insight community can share content within
an organization and between organizations. The Insight Collection Registry provides a centralized location for individual collection settings.
Simply add these to the Insight User Manager to allow for cross collection access and searching.
Centralize and Secure Visual
Resources
XML Gateway You can introduce Insight content into any application by separating
Insight's visual interface from its strong search and retrieval functionality.
With the XML Gateway, users are provided with a simple web services
interface, an XML API, which allows applications to outsource functionality
to Insight and capitalize on its strengths - allowing developers to
focus on user interaction and not on how to perform searches.
Static OAI Repository
Insight has a utility to generate a static OAI repository for any or all of your collections. A static OAI
repository is an XML document formatted in accordance with OAI guidelines. Static repositories are useful
for small and relatively static metadata collections.
Security Insight provides a diverse toolset to protect your content, from support
for single sign-on, to added security for media content and built-in
tools for rights management. Almost every function within Insight can
be restricted by user, or by groups of users, allowing you to manage
who has access to content and how they can interact with it.
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| A simple browser-based interface |
Raw XML from the REST based gateway |
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