Data Management

A modular open source platform to analyse, combine and integrate any kind of data, built on semantic and linked open data, so meaning travels with your information and nothing gets locked in. Elody is the engine behind digital collections, asset management and data platforms across heritage, government and research.

One platform for all your data

Elody is a modular open source data platform developed by the Inuits community. It collects, manages and connects digital assets and structured data from many sources in one central place, using semantic and linked open data so relationships between your information are captured, not lost.

Because it’s built on open standards and fully open source, there’s no vendor lock-in: your data stays yours.

Built from independent building blocks

Built from independent building blocks

Elody’s back-end is a set of loosely coupled microservices with an event-driven architecture. You address exactly the service you need (a collection API, an OCR service, a media server) without touching a monolith. Teams can extend it, swap parts out, and scale each component independently as needs grow.
Media, made searchable

Media, made searchable

OCR

Documents and scans run through Tesseract, so the text inside an image becomes fully searchable alongside its metadata.

IIIF

The open image standard delivers fast, zoomable, high-resolution media and clean interoperability with other systems.

Linked data

Connections across collections turn separate archives into one navigable whole.

Proven in production

Running where it matters, at real scale.

Running where it matters, at real scale.
Elody powers the Antwerp DAMS, managing 1.7 million+ digital assets across 90 applications, the city’s largest single user of the asset engine.

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