Faculty and students across campuses today are creating digital content with Xythos Digital Locker that can be shared and repurposed in various ways, feeding the demand for secure file management and collaborative solutions. Designed for the needs of the education market, the Xythos Digital Locker has become the first choice among K-12, colleges and universities who need to safely store and publish their content, collaborate on research projects and reduce administrative costs.

The company outlines the products benefits as follows:

• Library Services: Digital Locker has a complete set of library services, including file check-in, check-out, version control, audit history, comments, subscriptions and more. Subscriptions provide students and faculty with automatic email notification of changes that occur to directories and files they have subscribed to, making collaboration easier.

• File-Level Access Control: Digital Locker delivers an unsurpassed level of file access control, allowing administrators to create administrative, classroom and individual directories—each with their own security. Access controls on documents can also be controlled independently, so that faculty can create folders for students to upload class materials, but not view submissions from other classmates.

• Safe File Sharing: Digital Locker eliminates problems and risks created by email file attachments. It replaces attachments with secure file links (URLs) that can be password protected and safely exchanged with users outside of the organization. Digital Locker also provides file-level access control, allowing users to easily create personal and project-based workspaces without compromising overall system security. Inherited file permissions apply security features even when users forget to set them.

• Bandwidth & Quota Control: Digital Locker allows administrators to set bandwidth and quota controls on student and faculty directories at different limits, ensuring, for example, that students don’t slow down the system by downloading large media or video files.

• LDAP Integration: Digital Locker can authenticate with user directories like LDAP and Active Directory, providing an easy and secure way to manage user and group access rights and allowing organizations to perform a search against the LDAP server in order to authenticate users.

• JSR-168 Portlets: Digital Locker includes portlets which display folder contents, file search, file upload and user bookmarks. These portlets can be integrated into JSR-168 compliant portal environments.