| MODULE |
DESCRIPTION |
| eQUIP |
Provides
a flexible, scalable, extensible cornerstone
for the dissemination of knowledge and information
to the knowledge seeker.
Different elements, from enterprise information
to counter and reference desk services can be
aggregated and “plugged-in” into
eQUIP, enabling users to initiate self-accessed
web services from their own desktop computers.
Users are able access to facilities such as
view reserved or borrowed items, view fines,
perform renewals, retrieve favourite web sites
or URL Links (via MDG), review suggestions from
the Knowledge Desk, review mails generated from
the KM System and review new arrivals (via the
Personalisation engine), from their desktops.
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| Community
Information Service |
It
encourages community-wide communication and
collaboration efforts within the knowledge community.
It increases information sharing among unconnected
people or groups, which could lead to a closer
community. A successful CIS would be a trusted
source of information and knowledge for the
community. Users of CIS are provided with maintainable
URL Links that can access credible information
and referral services.
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| Copyright
Management |
It
manages a repository of an organisation’s
copyright licenses for all aspects of digital
content or subscribed repositories.
Copyright Management polices that manage the
usage of digital content by maintaining the
number of access licenses of a particular digital
document. |
| Digi-Net |
A
module which crawls through MOM repositories
installed in distributed sites to retrieve links
to digital contents, and index these links in
a central repository. |
| Electronic
Search Agent Management (eSAM) |
It
is a tool that provides a facility for an enterprise
to maintain any number of external databases
and resources, which are easily accessible through
a single sign-on facility and search interface.
It allows unified searching and retrieval from
external, free or subscribed bibliographic databases,
digital repositories, e-journals and internet
databases with search results displayed and
ranked by relevancy in a single view. |
| eBilling |
This
module focuses on the generation of charges
for services rendered from the ILMU™,
E-components and Smart Tools suite of modules.
The eBilling policy manager is able to manage
various categories of charges and integrates
with the Membership Management module to extract
the relevant eligibility rights of the user.
Bills are electronically generated and emailed
to the users’ desktops.
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| eDocument
Delivery |
It
provides users the facility to initiate online
requests for queried documents to be delivered
to their desk-tops electronically. |
| Facilities
Management |
Allows
management of all resources, including internet
terminals, and usage of photo-stating services
and rooms, that are provided by the knowledge
centre. Through the web enabled ECalender function,
users are provided with the facility to perform
online bookings of these resources. |
| Kid’s
Corner |
Is
a child-friendly WebOPAC interface that can
be accessed in the library or at home.
Searches can be performed on children’s
collection. The children could point and click
on a graphics-driven browser, which is fully
customisable, that can steer them to wherever
they need to go.
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| Membership
Management |
This
module manages web registration, member information
and attributes, member profile, and a host of
other features that permit members with interactive
site privileges from their desk-tops. Users
may self-administer their member account in
real-time from their desk-tops. |
| Meta-Net |
A
module which crawls through MOM repositories
installed in distributed sites to retrieve the
metadata and index these metadata in a central
repository. |
| Personalisation |
The
Personalisation engine delivers a range of personalisation
operations based on an individual's profile.
Users are provided with facilities to register
interests, monitor and be alerted to information
pertinent to their own personal 'channels',
which is displayed via the MDG module. |
| Repository
Management |
This
engine enables search across multiple internal
content repositories via a single sign-on facility.
Repository Management provides support for attribute-based,
Boolean or full-text search and viewing of a
broad range of content formats, from rich media
to traditional text-based documents. |
| Revenue
Management |
This
module manages the revenue generated by the
digital library services in the knowledge centre.
Using the Receipting function, the Revenue Management
module accepts payments for search queries and
requests for service transactions that are made
to the knowledge repositories. |
| Virtual
Research Facilitator |
Allows
the knowledge centre to provide research and
administrative services to users. The knowledge
centre maintains the role of an information
gateway by providing information packaging services. |
