INTRODUCTION

One of the fundamental contributions of Digital Preservation is the discovery and search capabilities of the preserved contents. OpenAccess’ is a quality platform that offers many options for discovery of the digital materials preserved. It allows a complete environment for managing the content, the users’ permissions (by roles or restrictions), and explore the full variety of modern formats and techniques. OpenAccess also includes full control at the same time that it focuses on usability (at various levels) with a simple scalable environment.

OpenAccess presents the following modules:

• An impressive interface: modern and responsive, easy to customize (template-based) to the desired needs (look and feel)

• Full-text search: blazing fast index making use of ElasticSearch.

• Advanced Search: fast and totally accurate searches (Filters, which include, exclude any metadata).

• Multi-language: supports multi-language (including the site, but also the metadata and records, if needed)

• Full IIIF support: IIIF is not only used to serve any file (including video and audio), but also to serve record manifests, increasing the re-usability of the content in the platform

• Full OAI-PMH support: content can be shared and distributed easily using the most adopted standard to do so: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

• Powerful access control: allowing certain content to be visible only from the reading rooms, from certain IP addresses, etc.

• Faceted interface: providing an elegant and modern way to search

• Task Manager: Control important tasks in the background and improve the user experience

• Worker: A service that runs in the background and works in conjunction with tasks.

• License: Authorization to use the platform and its additional services.