Platform
Our unique content commercialisation platform software enables companies to organise, enhance, publish and sell diverse sets of content to different audiences providing engagement, education, information and in some cases entertainment.
If you have content to publish and audiences to engage, Propagator can help.
We leverage the power of our technology to:
Categorise content
Personalise content
Distribute content
Commercialise content
Solution for academic publishing
Propagator is continuing to evolve its cloud-based academic publishing platform. Our product offers state of the art functionality, currently used on a variety of distinct academic publishing products. This platform can meet all of the requirements for the online publication and discovery of your content.
Designed to provide a better user experience by seamlessly integrating diverse content types (essays, articles, bibliographic data, dictionary terms, audio-visual, maps, graphs, archive material and statistics).
Key features include
- Automatically convert PDFs for free plug-in reading with text selection.
- Organise chapters and books in search results.
- Flexible access to free and paid material.
- Integrate existing brands of literary sources into a single product experience.
- Fully responsive modular solution.
Solution for employee and consumer engagement
The Content Propagator platform has been used in a number of different situations for employee and customer engagement.
Key features include
- Content available for free, by registration and by subscription.
- Very diverse range of content types can be uploaded, classified and displayed to end users.
- Range of business models for monetisation.
- Personalisation.
- Range of interactive modules.
Solution for education
Propagator has developed a number of solutions for use in educational environments including the original musicexpress.co.uk product, which is now part of Harper Collins (www.musicexpress.co.uk).
This provided a teacher and school subscription service – for live classroom teaching, customised lesson plans with audio/video and interactive exercises for use on interactive whiteboards.
The key features are
- Data driven multi-media player supports range of audio/video exercises.
- Interactive whiteboard activities.
- Rights management reporting.
- Fully integrates with national curriculum.
Solution for archives
Propagator has considerable experience of implementing archiving solutions, including:
The Winston Churchill Archives for Churchill College Cambridge and Bloomsbury Publishing
The Fashion Photography Archive
www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com
And the Routledge performance archive
www.routledgeperformancearchive.com
Key features include
- Examine original documents in an image viewer or as film strips.
- Integrate transcripts with original handwritten documents or multi-media.
- Easily search and browse millions of documents in a scalable database.
- XML-driven learning modules for further education with links to archival material.
Features
Introduction
Content Management
How to get content on to the platform, classify it, etc.
Content Services
Ways content can be discovered, collected, consumed.
Business Management
Business models, management reporting and customer accounts.
Marketing Management
Communications, showcasing, public content, campaigns.
Specialist Components
Specialised tools & modules linking users with learning goals, progress tracking, expert advice, communities of practice, etc.
Data Integration
Automated connection with other systems, such as portable devices, third-party websites or back-office IT.
Content Management
Easy to use administration interface for uploading content
Supports multiple content types and metadata standards
- Books and journals
- Articles
- Binary ancillary content
- Video content
- Audio content
- Image content
- Person / people
- Organisation
- Museum
- Exhibition items
- Museum object
- Studio
- Specialist content
- Classification scheme / taxonomy XML
- Formats we handle include: NLM, ONIX, METS, VRA, EAD, DOCBOOK, JATS AND BITS
- PDF (automatic conversion to online reading without browser plugin)
Adaptable specification of specialist content
- Image sets and attribution
- Video time points and chapters
- Audio
- Timeline
- Flashcards and flashcard decks
- Quizzes
- Downloadable file
- Person
- Organisation
- Event
- Bookstore item
- Exhibition team
Fully configurable data-driven classification scheme for categorising all content
- Hierarchical taxonomy model
- Faceted classification model (non-hierarchical)
- Semantic linking
- Items of content as classifications
- Built-in link types or define your own
- Classify core assets, digital ancillaries, general content pages
Blending different origins of business content on single page
- Mix CMS-editable content with data-driven primary product content (e.g. XML-imported)
- Use pre-built page templates or custom
Standard web pages and components
- Help page
- Lesson plan page
- Error page
- Cookies information page
- Maintenance page
- MARC records page
- Carousel component
- Styled headings
- Rich text
- Images
- Links
- FAQs component
- HTML component
- YouTube video component
Paywall management
- Controlling content inside or outside the paywall
- Time driven paid content inside or outside of the paywall
- Define public-facing version by type or by field
Content Services
Search – multiple facet based search with a wide range of options
- Quick search
- Metadata
- Proximity
- Wildcards
- XML => full text
- Weighting
- Boolean operators
- Diacritics
- Case sensitivity
- Subscription aware
- Advanced Search
- Search within book
Multiple Browser Support
- Chrome, FireFox, Safari, IE10+
- Mobile browsers on iOS, Android
Search Results – flexible presentation and refining
- Relevance ranking
- Hit highlighting
- Date
- Reverse sort
- Pagination
- Pagination
- Search within results (refine)
- Hit volumes per facet
- Filter by classification scheme (e.g. taxonomy)
- Aggregation of structured products (e.g. book chapters; product variants)
- Favourites / registration direct from results
- Filter by open access
- Public version (e.g. synopsis) of restricted content
Public version (e.g. synopsis) of restricted content
- Search engine optimised URLs and metadata provision
- In-bound deep linking
- CrossRef Integration
Browse
- Classification-scheme drill-down (e.g. by taxonomy)
- Templates per content type, e.g. people
- Descriptions at any classification level
- Browse by content type
- Faceted browsing (configured based on content types)
- Access-sensitive templates (public/search engine view)
- Dynamic semantic links and related content
Personalisation
- Sign up
- User Profile
- Saved Items
- Saved Searches
- Recent Searches/views (session based)
- Bookmarks
- Notes
- User registration for newsletters
- Create and manage collections of favourite content, saved searches and annotations at page level and text level
- Sharing folders
Personalisation
- Sign up
- User Profile
- Saved Items
- Saved Searches
- Recent Searches/views (session based)
- Bookmarks
- Notes
- User registration for newsletters
- Create and manage collections of favourite content, saved searches and annotations at page level and text level
- Sharing folders
Collaboration/Sharing/Social Media
- Integration of standard social ‘widgets’
- Emailing/sharing context-sensitive links
Content display
- Monograph overview
- Reference book overview
- Dictionary summary
- Monograph e-Reader
- Reference book e-Reader
- Dictionary Entry e-Reader
- Article e-reader
- Video player
- Audio player
- Image viewer
- Person viewer
- Organisation viewer
- Museum viewer
- Exhibition viewer
- Carousels
- Image filmstrips
- Timeline
- Multimedia with caption control
- Evidence maps
- High resolution image zoom
- Tablet and mobile first design
- Cross References
- Careful presentation of specific formats e.g. verse manuscript mark-up and abbreviations
Business Management
Site configuration
- Content type
- Site Theme
Service administration
- User management
Ecommerce
- Voucher codes
- EU VAT handling
- Support for subscriptions
- Subscription reminders
Access Control
- Institutional access
- Free content
- SAMS integration (Shibboleth, Athens + IP based access)
- Integration with 3rd party subscription management and authentication gateways e.g. SAMS
- Group or singular access capability
- Allows a range of purchase models
- Role-based permissions for end-users
Reporting
- COUNTER 4 / COUNTER stats
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Analytics
- Search Statistics
- Download Statistics
- Logging of search terms
- Failed searches
- Content downloads
- Most-read (popularity metrics)
- MARC records page
Business /revenue model
- E-commerce (buying / renting)
- Subscription
- Perpetual access
- Advertising & Sponsorship
- Lead generation
- Open Access
Marketing Management
CMS Marketing pages
CRM integration
Pre-launch marketing site
Events calendar
Website on own domain
List exportation to specialist email campaign tools
Email communication
Promotional management
Pricing management
Specialist Tools
Web based specialist tools
- Events calendars
- Audio video player
- Timelines
- Quizzes
- Flashcards
- Community functionality (Commenting/ Q&A)
- Listings
- Interactive maps
- Custom PDF generation
- Interactive infographics
App based specialist tools / framework
- Events
- Dictionaries
- Diaries
- Listings
- App framework includes personalisation, tracking, updates
Integration
Access Management
CRM
CrossRef
- Activation of DOIs
- Ability to registere pre-allocated DOIs through CrossRef API
Federated Search
COUNTER 4
E-commerce
- Shops (creation)
- Payment gateways (e.g. World Pay/ Sage Pay)
- Promotions
- Reporting (orders VAT report, ability to integrate with physical fulfilment systems), see reporting for list of management reports
- MPS
- MDL
- Adobe content Server