Syntactica Solutions for the Digital Historian

In the past, historians spent much of their career buried deep in the stacks of libraries researching their topics and looking for details about historical events. Both their input and output was paper.

Today a historian must do more than just read books and publish papers in journals. Their task involves the creation and managment of digital archives of their reserch topics. And their output must be easy to use by their peers and other consumers of digitally formatted historical documents. Within the last several years these digital documents are being stored in open XML formats.

But many historians are working with limited budgets and do not have the resources to purchase complex databases and hire full time software developers to create and maintain high-precision document markup systems.

Digital historians need easy-to use tools that can be customized to their needs without the need for custom software. They need solutions that do not require complex programming languages such as Java, .Net, C# or Python. They want solutions that allow them to drag-and-drop XML files into collections and allow fast but precise retreval over very large document collections.

The Syntactica XRX application architecture is perfectly suited to these requirements. With the XRX web application architecture you will never need to learn about creating middle tier objects, relational databases or transforming XML to and from these other formats.

We offer a full range of tools and processes to do the most with limited budgets. We focus on open source software systems that can be quickly customized to the needs of the digital historian. Our solutions make it easy for non-programmers to handle all phase of the import, analize and export XML documents from a wide-variety of sources. At Syntactica our philosophy is to empower the digital historian with tools that make them more productive without breaking the bank.