web application for working with the national catalog

Register of book monuments

The electronic catalog of book monuments is a digital platform designed for the preservation, systematization, and study of rare and valuable publications. PRAS developed this system for the National Library of Belarus, while also providing the capability to expand the registry with unique volumes from private collections.

client
National Library of Belarus
task
Creating a unified digital registry for the rarest and most valuable books preserved in Belarus.
platform
The project is implemented on a proprietary .NET web application management system
technologies
C#, ASP.NET MVC, MSSQL Server, HTML, CSS, JS, AngularJS
release date
December 2018
link
kp.nlb.by
Main page of the project
Main page of the project
Design of all web application pages
technical specifications and UI features
  • Secure Media Storage: optimized asset storage ensuring rapid, low-latency delivery of high-resolution page scans.
  • Sub-Second Querying: server architecture optimized for real-time filtering across multi-attribute bibliographic schemas.
  • Interactive Reader UI: intuitive viewer controls providing lossless deep-zoom capabilities for manuscript details.
  • Background Processing: asynchronous ingestion pipelines for high-density assets to preserve interface responsiveness.
value for businesses and users
  • Heritage Preservation: digital preservation protects rare physical manuscripts and historic texts from physical deterioration.
  • Global Accessibility: enables remote academic research and public exploration of restricted archives worldwide 24/7.
  • Data Consolidation: unifies fragmented library registries and private collections into a single standardized platform.
  • Operational Efficiency: streamlines archival discovery through instant filtering and interactive collection visualizers.
tags
review

Thanks to the work carried out, a mechanism for presenting the country's book monuments on the Internet, which reflects the written heritage stored in libraries, has been created. We note that we can recommend PRAS Ltd. for their responsible and professional approach to work.

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