We believe in Digital Preservation ! Arkhênum, your digital expert since 1999. Arkhênum key figures: • Over 17 years of experience • 60 skilled employees • 60 scanners up to A00 size format • 142 million pages produced per year

1. The past has never been
more accessible

2. Preserve and share your
heritage documents
Arkhênum offers tailor-made solutions
More than 650 clients trust us:
• Companies
• Archiving Services
• Book and media libraries
• Museums
• Foundations and institutions
ENRICHMENT SHARING
AUDITING & CONSULTING DIGITIZATION

3. Each of our 60 employees fully shares your heartfelt concern
for the preservation of cultural or industrial heritage.
Since 1999, Arkhênum has specialised in the digital
preservation of all types of assets requiring special care and
specialised scanners. Due to its uniqueness, each asset
requires suitable material and proper handling.
Our 6 Project Managers deal with all
types of documents
• Printed books, manuscripts, letters
• Registers: deliberations, births, deaths, marital status, military
• Catalogues, technical documentation
• Postcards, Ektachrome, photographs, glass plaques
• Newspapers, newsletters, journals
• Maps, architectural drawings, posters, prints
• Bound and loose archival assets, bundles
• Paintings and objects
• Audiovisual assets
Your tailor-made services
We work from our own premises or from workshops set up
directly on customers’ premises in any country. To date we
have successfully set up 120 production units. Our fleet of
50 scanners, which can work with many different kinds of
documents, allow more than 12 million views per year to be
generated up to A00 size.
The quality of our images are in line with the standards of the
National Archive services:
• Suitable resolution (300 to 3600 dpi)
• Naming rules, scan settings (colorimetry, framing)
• Standard format files (TIFF, JPEG, PDF)
• Indexing of directories, fully completed inventories
to
preserve
DIGITIZE
Auditing &
Consulting
• Study of assets and advice
• Documentation Services:
preparation of assets, filing, inventory
• Training for the implementation of a
digitization project

4. Scanning your assets is the first step to benefit from them.
Our work-flow solution issued by the POLINUM research program
allows us to ensure that all the processing of documents is done in
line with your business needs.
Data processing performed
• Character recognition (OCR)
• PDF enrichment with table of contents
• Generation of internal (IPTC / XMP) and external (XML, MIX) metadata
• Dublin Core Encoding, EAD, MODS
• Indexing: inputting handwritten or printed fields
• Article segmentation (XML ALTO)
• Deliverables: METS and/or Refnum
• Post processing PAO: curve correction, image editing
to
share
better
Ensure the sustainability of your data
Digital preservation only makes sense if it comes together with
data sustainability and accessibility. Our IT department supports
you at every stage of the digital archiving process.
We advise you on your choice of storage media (CD-ROM, LTO,
RDX, hard disk drive, server) to transfer and archive digital data.
Our recommendations are made on the basis of your environment
and the unique qualities of each media. As an expert in this field,
Arkhênum is a member of AFNOR, the Working Group on Digital
Archiving.
ENRICH

5. Whether you are a public institution or company, you may want
to exhibit your digital assets. Arkhênum supports you in this
process with different solutions such as a digital library, multi-
touch tables or browsable 3D books.
Exhibit your heritage on the Internet
Internet visibility is a must for any public or intranet
communication. Our online digital library solution enhances
your digital assets.
Some of its advanced features include:
• Multi-media platform: image, video, audio
• Detailed record for each asset
• High resolution pyramidal zoom
• 3D Walls
• Geolocation
• Compatibility with OAI (Open Archives Initiative)
A multi-platform solution
Over 50 institutions trust us to develop personalized solutions
for their assets. For cultural institutions, the public value of this
knowledge is at the heart of their mission. For private companies,
sharing this information can be synonymous with saving time and
therefore increasing productivity, and even generating additional
revenue.
Our digital library is available on:
• Internet
• Intranet
• Tablets
• Smartphones
• Interactive screens
your
heritage
SHARE

6. Why choose ARKHÊNUM for
your project?
Headquarters
43 avenue Charles de Gaulle
33200 Bordeaux
France
Phone: +33 (0)5 57 02 10 65
E-mail: contact-num@arkhenum.fr
www.arkhenum.fr
• Over 17 years of experience
• 60 employees with complementary skills
• 5 sales engineers available to develop your project
• 50 scanners covering all formats up to A00 size
• 12 million pages digitized every year
• More than 650 clients
Global coverage
Arkhênum digitizes in our own offices, in our
clients’offices or in our partners’ offices.