Store
The Store is where the Hub acquires new abilities. Open it from the left sidebar: each application is presented as a card; selecting a card opens its notice, with a description, what it offers, and the Install action.
Installing an application
- Open Store in the left sidebar.
- Select the application's card to read its notice.
- Choose Install. Installed applications take their place in the sidebar, ready for use. Applications marked Coming soon announce what is on its way and cannot yet be installed.
Whether the Store appears to you at all depends on your role: administrators decide which roles in the institution have access to it.
DPAC, by Ecomic
DPAC (Digital Preservation and Access Console), by Ecomic, is the first installable application of the Store, built for the MiC Digital Library of the Italian Ministry of Culture. It is the bridge between the digitized collection and its long-term preservation:
- It defines the DPAC catalog template, the spreadsheet format the Hub's Catalog and Import Data recognise natively, so the register reads like the official sheet.
- Its Package Manager assembles preservation packages from the digitized works, deposits them in the Digital Library and notarizes them: a certified, tamper-evident record that the deposit took place.
- The Hub follows each package (in deposit, deposited, notarized) and protects the packaged derivatives from deletion for as long as a package cites them: the preservation record cannot be quietly unmade.
- The heavy work of packaging is done by the Hub's own worker network; nothing is asked of your machines.
Once installed, DPAC stands in the sidebar with its Package Manager.
Coming soon
The shelf grows. Applications already announced:
| Application | What it will offer |
|---|---|
| museAR | Augmented reality built from your digitized works: models, annotations and narratives laid over the physical collection. By AerariumChain. |
| 3DPrint App | A faithful physical print of a work, commissioned from certified AerariumChain providers directly from its 3D model. |
| MyTotem Manager | Interactive touch totems for the galleries, composed from your Catalog and deployed to the venue remotely. |
| VideoRender Maker | Presentation films of the 3D models: turntables, camera paths and lighting, rendered in the cloud. |
| Image Render Maker | Publication-quality plates of the scanned works, for catalogs, prints and the press office. |
| SweetReach | Short films from the collection, published to your channels, with their campaigns planned and followed. |
Further applications join the Store as partners come aboard.