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Digital Library

Loyola supported a digital library involving thousands of documents scanned in Adobe PDF format and stored in an Oracle database. In addition to maintaining the original document's layout and signature blocks, an invisible text layer and metadata is saved with the document in the digital library. This layer is used with Oracle's Context Cartridge to allow 'smart' search capabilities in regards to document retrieval. These digital library search capabilities include search by keyword, best match, date range, topic, type, title, and also geospatial searching through a map interface.