The Art Document Company

The {Art Document} Company helps owners of art-collections. They help archive large and diverse art collections for people who need to document these collections. TADC archives these collections in their system and presents the owner with a clear and refined catalog.

The company had an older system which used forms and cumbersome item-per-page editing for creating a complex structure of information about each object. It was slow and not easy to use. With the use of a new system and Xopus they meant to increase the speed of managing this complex documentation and to structure it with increased user-friendliness.

Any art-object is archived with all the usual information concerning the object, such as the name, description, administration, creator, dimensions, and other. Moreover the system allows the client to see where their objects currently are, where they have been, and even at which exhibitions they are or have been used. The information is incredibly detailed, down to the inscriptions made on the object, with detailed information about how and where on the object the inscription is made.

Xopus' power comes forward in the ease with which the complexity of the intertwined information can now be edited. It's Application Programming Interfacehas been used to extend the Content Management System, and so provides the users of the system, who were used to their old system - but not to computers - , with a system that suits their habits . It meets them in speeding up the processes with easy in-place look-up editors, and on-page extension of objects with more attributes.

The XML structure of the new system is converted by Xopus from the old system, and moreover the presentation in the editor is not drawn according to the XML structure, but made to make things clear for the user. While the users use the content management system to edit the information, the CMS uses Xopus to edit the XML and the information which it contains.

The {Art Document} Company uses the XML both to allow clients to look at their collections online, but also to print to a fancy coffee-table book that the clients can keep to have a better overview of their collections.

The web based WYSIWYG XML editor
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