web application for working with the national catalog

Register of book monuments

The electronic registry of historic publications is a digital platform engineered to preserve, categorize, and research rare books and cultural heritage texts. PRAS built this infrastructure for the National Library of Belarus and integrated specialized features enabling the inclusion of rare editions from private collections.

task
Establishing a centralized digital repository of the most valuable historic publications and rare 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
November 2018
Main page of the project
Main page of the project
Design of all web application pages
technical specifications and UI features
  • Archival Asset Pipeline: optimized storage architecture engineered for low-latency streaming of high-density page scans.
  • High-Performance Search: backend framework delivering millisecond query execution across multi-parameter data models.
  • Responsive Document Viewer: interactive interface featuring lossless pan-and-zoom controls for detailed manuscript analysis.
  • Asynchronous Ingestion: background workers for asset transformation and indexing to maintain zero-latency UI performance.
value for businesses and users
  • Cultural Heritage Preservation: digital archiving mitigates physical wear on rare manuscripts while ensuring long-term conservation.
  • Democratized Access: opens restricted cultural archives and private holdings to global scholars and researchers 24/7.
  • System Standardization: consolidates legacy library databases and private collections under a cohesive metadata standard.
  • Resource Optimization: accelerates historical research by replacing manual indexing with sub-second multi-attribute search.
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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