ArchProteus
Conversion and Automation Solutions for Archives



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...taking many forms.
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EAD Encoded Archival Description
is a XML DTD (Document Type Definition) consisting in a library of tags for the encoding of archival finding aids. EAD is owned by the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress (LC). For more information on EAD, please refer to the EAD Standards Home Page.

Satisfied customers in 8 countries on 3 continents



Our mission
is to serve the archival community automation needs worldwide, with services and tools that would facilitate Internet access to archival repositories.

Our consultants
are experts in several areas and contribute, on a project basis, to the delivery of products of the highest quality.


Our principal and senior consultant is Nicolas Maftei,    BSc., Dipl. Eng.

Nicolas Maftei's experience as an information systems consultant includes 23 years with IBM. In the 1980's, he was awarded the prestigious IBM Corporation Outstanding Innovation Award for pioneering work in object oriented application design and development.

Founder of ArchProteus, Nicolas Maftei specializes since 1992 in records management, archives, museum and library applications. He was involved in the design and the implementation of automated solutions and conversion projects for, among others, the National Archives of Canada, Archives nationales de France, several Provincial and State Archives, the NWDA (Northwest Digital Archives) Consortium, the National Moving Image Database (NAMID, American Film Institute, Los Angeles) and the Public Records Office of Hong Kong. He teaches automation at the University of British Columbia (UBC) graduate School of Library, Archival and Information Studies and is a frequent speaker at archival conferences in Canada, the Unites States and Europe.


More archival expertise
is brought to the ArchProteus team by a graduate of the Master of Archival Studies (MAS) program at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

European languages
- virtually all of them - are spoken by several regular contributors to our conversion and encoding projects, one of whom holds a Ph.D. in classical philology.

Specialized vocabularies
are also familiar to our consultants: medicine, biology, physics, mathematics, astronomy, economics, political sciences, archeology, philosophy and more.






ArchProteus
Voice: (604) 732-5614    Fax: (604) 732-5672    e-mail: ArchProteus@shaw.ca
Address: 3125 West 5 Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6K 1V1