web application for working with the national catalog

Register of book monuments

PRAS created a catalog of valuable books from the collection of the National Library of Belarus and also implemented the possibility to add to it book monuments from private collections.

client
National Library of Belarus
task
Creation of an electronic version of the State Register of Book Monuments of 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
  • Advanced Metadata Engine: Support for extensive search attributes (from publication era to provenance marks).
  • High-Res Viewer: Built-in tool for viewing digitized pages with deep zoom and smooth scrolling.
  • Angular OnPush Performance: Optimized rendering of book lists and galleries for instant UI response.
  • Semantic Search: Search algorithms tailored for early printed texts and historical context.
  • SVG Mapping Components: Vector elements for clear visualization of printing geography.
  • Responsive Archival Layout: An interface optimized for researchers on both desktops and tablets.
value for businesses and users
  • Cultural Preservation: Digitization and secure storage of national treasures in a protected digital space.
  • Scientific Accessibility: Open access to rare collections for researchers worldwide.
  • Educational Impact: A ready-to-use resource for students and historians with intuitive categorization.
  • Operational Efficiency: Streamlining librarian workflows for rare book accounting and cataloging.
  • Global Visibility: Integrating Belarus's book heritage into the global digital context.
  • EBRD Quality Compliance: Adherence to international data security and system resilience standards.
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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