Calm - the natural choice for archives
Calm is the leading Archives system in the UK, and Axiell is working closely with archivists to make sure it stays that way.
Calm for Archives is a comprehensive, integrated and affordable system that is suited to the needs of a range of archive collections including Record Offices, Universities, Research Institutes and Special Repositories.
Calm manages:
- Accessions
- Hierarchical cataloguing
- Loans and Productions
- Conservation
- Internet/intranet access
Calm:
- Supports EAD, ISAD (G) and is compliant with ISAAR (CPF) and NCA name authority guidelines.
- Has a dynamic, customisable user interface with context sensitive button strip to help work flow operations.
- Uses the Calm “tree view” to enhance visual representation of links between records.
- Allows users to tab seamlessly to related records.
- Allows extensive user customisation.
- Links to electronic data sources including audio and video.
- Incorporates intelligent date handling; including circa, mid/early/late century and date ranges.
- Has Authority control for Names, Places, Periods, Events and Subjects.
- Provides for both Single and poly-hierarchical subject thesaurus options and optional provision of the UNESCO or UKAT thesaurus.
- Manages digital assets using ImageView.
- Records metadata relating to digital images in the optional Images database.
- Allows searching over the Internet or intranet via the optional DServe web server module.
- Has a Locations database for stock check and collections management.
