This
sequence of pages provides a brief introduction to Aurora Information Technology (AIT),
and its dynamic range of products designed to control the digital and hybrid libraries
required by the Information Age. Aurora Systems are designed to provide the maximum
flexibility to libraries through application of prevailing standards, and the use of rapid
development techniques to ensure appropriate solutions.
The Aurora system is evolving from a true client/server application, providing task
specific clients addressing a common server capability to a fully
web-enabled suite of programs.
Aurora provides for truly open and extensible architecture, affording
the library absolute choice in database and text retrieval solutions, through AIT's unique
independence layer middleware allowing the library application to communicate to the
appropriate engine.
Aurora is developed for the Windows
environment, operating with Windows clients,
providing availability on the world's fastest growing platform. The Aurora system is
scaleable too, providing solutions for large libraries, with multiple server requirements,
but also for the small library requiring a single workstation.
AIT is currently developing existing applications for
web deployment, moving existing VB6 programs into the Microsoft.Net environment.
Aurora is Database and Text Retrieval independent, but we recommend
Microsoft SQLServer as the relational
database, and ISYS (from Odyssey) as the choice for text
retrieval engines. Aurora is also capable of supporting Oracle under Sun
Solaris - please enquire for details.
Check
out our individual Product fact sheets for more detail
on our increasing range of client software.
Aurora Systems
are designed to the highest specifications, derived from numerous leading libraries across
four continents, allowing usage across all library sectors, from the most demanding
multi-site installations, to single PC workstations. Special facilities are provided to
ensure the fullest use by clients with visual impairments.
Fully designed
for the Windows environment, Aurora provides for true openness of architecture through
AIT's development of independence layers to allow libraries to determine their own
preferred database and text retrieval system; Aurora also uses the Unicode (tm) character
set encoding to provide universality of application throughout the world's languages. In
the area of Z39.50 developments, AIT has developed and built its own ASN.1 compiler,
providing for the construction of Version 3 (1995) compliant origin and target
developments, and allowing rapid development of Extended Service provision, to incorporate
the requirements of the ILL protocol, and the Union Cataloguing Profile.
Contact Information
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