Services – LINHD

We are experts in academic research as a result of the work accomplished at the pioneering research center on Digital Humanities: LINHD.
We use European standards in the field of Digital Humanities which allow interoperability among projects and information data exchange, as well as long-term preservation based on XML standards.
We work mainly with free software and also make the source code available to our clients, offering transparency and making preservation possible as property of the client.
Projects are individually analyzed by a group of Humanities researchers and computer science technicians, making it possible to detect the needs and academic opportunities at an early stage, so that we can offer solutions adjusted to the situation, instead of ad-hoc developments.
We offer guaranteed long-term project preservation, with hosting and maintenance in our digital platform even after the project funding is over. An additional advantage of hosting with our center and platform is the dissemination of projects and contents in a widely-recognized academic environment.
Our solutions are customized for every single project, developed by our experts in response to your specific needs.

Our landmark products in the Digital Humanities field

Semantic text tagging and interrogation systems: by means of markup language systems, such as XML-TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), LMF (Lexical Markup Framework), EAD (Encoded Archival Description). Creating validation descriptors and transformation stylesheets in languages such as XSLT. Systems for semantic queries on tagged texts.
Databases: Ranging from conceptual data modeling to developing relational model representations or creating native XML databases. Definition and implementation of security and management policies.
LOD GLAM: Linked Open Data applied to Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums.
Digital libraries and digital archives: Development of new projects and integration of libraries already digitized in projects such as Europeana.
Specialized training oriented to projects, research groups and institutions.

And also…

Modeling, simulation and virtualization: Applying techniques for modeling, simulation, virtual reality and augmented reality in Humanities projects.
Preservation and maintenance of the projects carried out within LINHD.
Digitization and preservation: Digitization, storage and metadata systems for digital documents, interoperability, and exchange standards.
Content spreading on the web: Setting-up web portals, domain management, CMS (Content Management System) production, intranet design and implementation for teams, etc.
Language Processing: Semantic tagging process automation.
Data mining and Big Data: Knowledge retrieval from large data volumes applied to Humanities and Social Sciences.

Consultancy and prototype execution to apply for national and international calls of proposals under different funding programmes.
Developing tagging systems, encoding schemes and metadata.
Implementation of visualization systems.
Database creation and development.
Virtual Private Server Hosting, including maintenance services.
Designing and programming the project’s website : CMS (Content Management System)
Project’s web applications design and programming

Integrated Library System (ILS).
Setting up open source systems.
Born Digital materials management.
Digital derivatives Management (Historical and patrimonial libraries, ancient holdings).
Implementation and creation of high-level prototypes.
Updates, improvement suggestions, upgrades, corrective and evolutionary maintenance.

Collection description.
International Standards for collection description.
Open source publication and retrieval systems.
Virtual and Digital exhibitions.
Design of virtual tools and systems for gaming, augmented reality and virtual reality.