IDEA@Arc bridges the gap between the analog past and the digital future. Cultural heritage institutions and research centers can easily appraise, arrange, describe, preserve and provide access to archival collections or fonds using IDEA@Arc’s adjustable archival management system.

• Management of heterogeneous collections: cataloging of files, albums, documents, protocols, photographs, maps, plans newspapers cuttings, etc., using pre-defined and/or customized templates.

• Principle of Provenance adherence and management of archival collections logical hierarchical structure (collection, subcollection, series, subseries, file, item). Hierarchical links between the different archive levels are created and managed with a graphical tree representation of the archival structure.

• Automatic inheritance of metadata using collection-based logical and physical structures. Inheritance from upper levels of the archive hierarchy to the lower levels reduces data entry time, and ensures accurate cataloging at each level, thus reducing costs.

• Accession Book: Management of registration of new materials.

• Support of industry standards and interoperability protocols: ISAD (G), ISAAR, DACS, RAD2, Dublin Core and EAD.

• Finding aids: Automatic generation of finding aids from the system database.

• Calculated and grouped fields: Unique generation and support.

• Efficient physical management of items shows the number of files available on each shelf or container and enables easy item relocation.

• Automatic numbering and coding of archived items constitutes a cornerstone of the record's identification and saves entry time and mistakes.

• Item link mechanism: Creation, management and display of links between items.

• Full and seamless integration with IDEA@Lib and IDEA@Muse.