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Samvith DMS Features

  • DMS manages all kinds of documents – paper, electronic and images (tiff, gif, jpeg, etc)
  • Faster retrieval saves time
  • Organizes documents
  • Safe against natural disaster
  • Multiple users can share documents at the same time
  • No need to buy and install software (like MS Office or others) at multiple locations.
  • Maintains confidentiality, secrecy and accuracy of data
  • Ability to step into the customer’s shoes and provide state-of-the-art solutions on a turnkey basis
  • Pioneering innovative technologies
  • Error-free data capturing
  • An efficient and economical option
  • Expertise developed in heterogeneous environments over decades
  • Highly scalable

Samvith Digitization Methodology

June 4th, 2009 Manthan Bhavsar No comments
  • Documents Conversion:

Conversion is done by Digital Imaging technology. If any document needs to be converted to electronic format by converting to the image and stored with proper indexing. The system generates the document names automatically.

  • Image Enhancement:

Sometimes while converting the document to electronic format, the setup adds certain kind of noise to the image. So to improve that noise and make the image clean we have introduced various methods to enhance the image quality, these include skew removal, speckle-removal, Black border removal, etc.

  • Document Storage and Archival:

All documents are stored centrally. Each document is indexed and stored on a secondary storage device with proper encryption. Facility for archival of document images is also provided in the form of an application enabling the storage on storage media.

  • Document Retrieval:

While searching, document is identified and located because of proper indexing mechanism. Each document can be searched as per specific attributes (e.g. Title, Author, Date of creation, etc.)

  • Security Features:

Security is achieved by keeping the access level permissions depending upon the privileges granted to the user. All the documents are first encrypted and then stored on the storage media to prevent piracy and / or unauthorized access. The documents stored can only be viewed through our application.

Software Features

June 4th, 2009 Manthan Bhavsar No comments
  • Authentication and Admin module
  • Open source with license versions
  • Robust versioning system
  • Dynamic workflow automation
  • User and hierarchy definitions
  • Masters
    • Complete Metadata as per guidelines of MHRD, GOI.
  • Indexing
  • Imaging database
    • Master Image
    • Clean Master
    • Access Image
    • Thumbnails
  • Search option including key words, manuscript, author, year, language, category, page number, etc.,
  • Print and save options.
  • Transliteration support
  • Online translations (language support)
  • Download, Save options in various formats like Jpeg, TIFF, PDF etc.,
  • Customized reports

INFORMATION ABOUT DIGITIZATION

Digitization

  • Digital technology opens up a totally new perspective.The World Wide Web holds millions of websites and the internet is market place for research, teaching, expression, publication and communication of information.
  • Libraries and Archives are society’s primary information providers with respect to cataloguing and processing management. Besides preserving and providing access to ‘born digital material’ a great number of libraries and organizations having old physical documents in storage are nowadays have also turned to creating digital surrogates from their existing resources.
  • Digitization means acquiring, converting, storing and providing information in a computer format that is standardized, organized and available from demand from common system. With specialized scanner’s old physical documents are converted into compressed digital formats and stored systematically for future reference.

Why Digitize

The reasons for implementing a digitization project or more precisely for digital conversion of non-digital source material are varied. The decision to digitize may be in order to:

  • To increase access : This is the most obvious and primary reason, where there is thought to be a high demand from users and the library or source has the desire to improve access to a specific location.
  • To improve services to an expanding user’s group by providing enhanced access to the institution’s resources with respect to education, long life learning.
  • To reduce the handling and use of fragile or heavily used original material and create a “back up” copy for endangered material.
  • Moreover, electronic documents are more versatile than printed documents: they can be displayed on a computer screen, edited and printed out.

Principal reasons for digitization

For enhanced access

Mainly for research purposes.

To facilitate new forms of access and use

The main purpose in this case is to enable the use of original documents that cannot be consulted in its original form other than by visiting its specific repository and for manuscripts that has been damaged and where technology is needed to reveal its content or shape.

For preservation

The purpose is, in the first place, to create accurate reproductions of the original documents on a long lasting medium. These reproductions need to satisfy both users of today and future potential users, and must therefore both be of high quality and possess a physical stability that can be maintained over time.

Advantages

  • Electronic documents can be shared easily:
  • They can be duplicated easily and cheaply, sent by email or put on a website. They can be added to a digital library and made available to users on CD-ROM, or through an Intranet or the Internet.
  • Electronic documents are easy to store and retrieve.
  • Thousands of documents can be stored on a single CD-ROM or hard drive.
  • The user can find a document easily and quickly using the computer’s search capabilities.
  • Transforming documents into digital formats also avoids physical deterioration and mishandling of cultural heritage materials such as handwritten manuscripts or books.
  • Retaining physical reliability is one of the issues related to the digital preservation of electronic files, which also include maintaining availability and security of the file collection over time.


TIMING BANDS


The Texas Instruments half duplex 134kHz transponder is a litte miracle. The ‘batteryless’ internal circuit derives power from the electromagnetic field generated from a special antenna in the mat. After powering the transponder up, the mat antennas listen for the transponders unique tag code transmission. This is achieved in 50 milliseconds in all environmental conditions. Transponders can even be read under water!

Transponder timing bands can be bought outright from any TI distributer and their are no further lease fees associated with their use. The one transponder times all types of events so you don’t have to fork out for a different type of transponder if you want to time a triathlon. You can choose where are when you use them in your events. If you need a larger number of transponders for a particular event we can hire these out to most countries.

The transponders are embedded in a tough plastic housing so that they cannot be damaged. The housings are either threaded onto a soft neoprene ankle band or can be tied onto the shoelace. The whole neoprene ankle band weighs less than 15g and is barely noticeable by the athlete whether they are swimming, running or cycling. Many years of research and development have led to a neoprene band that causes absolutely no chafing.

ANTENNA MATS

EVA Foam Mats

Our new lightweight mats (1.1 x 1.4m) come standard with the Dual Antenna System. Weighing just 6kg each, they are easy to move around and position. The mats interlock with each other using a novel jigsaw pattern ensuring that mats do not move despite the heavy traffic of runners. The heat-treated upper surface is tough enough to withstand abuse such as cycle cleats whilst being soft underfoot and non-slip in wet conditions. The mats do not absorb water and can be easily cleaned and washed. Sets of mats come with bevelled border pieces that give the mat array an extremely professional look. The lightness of the mats is a particular advantage when freighting equipment by air.

The Dual Antenna System comes with 2 mats and the HDD System can optionally come with 4 mats. Mats can be layed in any orientation to maximise the read rate of competitors.

Any number of systems can be used to create an array of antenna mats which will handle the largest of races. The number and type of systems required for a timing point depends on the speed and density of competitors. The widest timing point can be 6 metres.

Single Carpet Mat

The HDD System comes standard with a 4 metre x 2 metre single carpet mat. The mat contains a separate charge up antenna and 16 individual reader antennas sandwiched between a quality marine carpet and rubber base. The mat weighs 27kg and can be rolled up for storage. The entirely waterproof mat is ideal for the biggest races that require a full 8 metre wide timing point.