Building and maintaining historical and art collections in the digital era presents challenges that have never before been faced. These problems range from having to preserve many old and priceless documents and manuscripts against the ravages of time, to having new and possibly not yet well-defined options for digital conversion and dissemination.

A central issue is the impact that digitization will have on allowing access to a collection for everyone who wants to use it. You want your collection to reach a much wider and diverse audience. For instance, scholars and researchers will view these documents, images and manuscripts for their work. Students will explore speeches, catalogues, and photographs for a first time. The items that are digitized in a collection must be available to anyone, anywhere, and at any time. When, where, and how do you meet the needs of these very different users so that they can easily delve into your electronic collections?

Prospect Technologies’ Digital Collections Division can help answer these pressing questions by bringing to your organization immediate Web-based, online access to your collections. Powered by digiDOQ – Prospect Technologies’ Web based information / records management system – you can have access to documents, manuscripts, photographs, maps, newspapers, posters, and other media. And this can all be made available to your patrons and other users.

Over the past 10 years, Prospect Technologies has developed digiDOQ by working closely with US Government clients as well as other for-profit companies and not-for-profit organizations. By listening to the needs of our customers, Prospect Technologies has developed its Digital Collections Division to bring a Web based, state-of-the-art technology solution to all types of collections.

ASI announces the use of digDOQ in support of its world-wide art exhibitions

• "...[T]his new development is a change to the capabilities of the Hosting Museum Access feature of ASI's website -- www.ASIexhibitions.org. With respect to advanced technology and usability, it represents a quantum leap forward in the museum world. ASI has incorporated digiDOQ (a state-of-the-art Web-based information and file management system) which will provide you with a more convenient organization of -- and access to! -- exhibition files, and will better facilitate the viewing and sharing of this information with your in-house colleagues ..."

The US Coast Guard (USCG) / Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uses Prospect Technologies’ digiDOQ for historic records storage.

• The USCG Accident / Boating Safety Incident / Archives.