This museum offers two key facilities. One is the ability to search for digital objects and the second is the ability to purchase them.
The key functions include:
The search engine for digital objects is separate and independent of the database.
When customers find a digital object to purchase, they are seamlessly transferred to the database, where the object details are mapped to one inside the e-commerce engine, which has information about all the metadata of the digital object.
A pricing calculator is used to determine costs. This requires metadata to work out information about the digital object.
The database communicates directly with the bank to verify all credit card transactions.
As not all digital objects have been digitized, a sophisticated workflow is employed to handle the post processing of the object. This includes check in and out facilities, tracking, scanning, printing,. and customer delivery.
