In the vast world of publishing, and particularly for those managing magazines, periodicals, and other publications with a long history, there is an invaluable heritage stored in paper or static digital archives.
This enormous informational value – made up of articles, images, citations, contributions from artists and authors – often remains inaccessible or extremely laborious to consult and fully valorize.
To unlock this potential and transform editorial and documentary archives into dynamic and easily consultable resources, Ex Machina has created COSMO 42. It is not a simple archiving system, but an intelligent platform designed to understand and make the hidden informational wealth searchable.
COSMO 42 radically changes the way one interacts with archives. The process begins simply with scans of printed pages – from a single issue of a magazine or entire years. The system, in fact, can extract and analyze not only the text contained in articles, captions, or indexes, but also interpret images, recognize layouts, and correlate graphic elements. This process goes beyond simple digitization, creating a deep and structured understanding of the content, even from originally paper documents.
Once a single issue of a magazine or an entire digitized archive of magazines has been acquired and analyzed, COSMO 42 makes this heritage immediately searchable. Users can search for specific articles, trace citations, find works associated with an artist or texts by an author, navigating both within a single issue and across the entire historical collection. The search can be conducted through an intuitive conversational interface.
COSMO 42 transforms static archives into a dynamic knowledge base. Every piece of retrieved information is firmly linked to its original source (the scanned page, the specific article), ensuring accuracy and context, and eliminating the risk of imprecise answers.
Thanks to its flexibility and ability to process large volumes of information from documents that are even difficult to search or manually catalog, the system is also perfectly suited for managing large-scale public and private archives, making an otherwise dispersed heritage accessible.
Security and confidentiality are priorities; in fact, COSMO 42 is installed on a secure cloud space or within the client’s pre-existing infrastructure, keeping all data and documents within their controlled environment. Granular access control systems ensure that information is accessible only to those authorized, integrating with existing authentication systems.
In summary, COSMO 42 is not just a digitization tool, but an intelligent platform that unlocks the value of editorial and documentary archives. It transforms printed paper and static files into an active, searchable, and interactive knowledge base, offering new possibilities for accessing, studying, and valorizing cultural and informational heritage, regardless of its original form.
