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COLD
(Computer Output to Laser Disk)
COLD
is a means of capturing computer generated data and archiving it
in a convenient and useful fashion. To a purist, a COLD system would
always use optical disk as the archive media, but for the purposes
of our discussion, we will assume that the archival media could
be WORM, CD-ROM, Re-write-able Optical or even magnetic devices.
 Why
do you need a COLD system?
At first glance, a COLD system seems a bit redundant, after all
the information is already in digital form. Why not just keep it
in the original data processing system and retrieve it from there.
You could, but with most systems, you would pay a price both in
performance and storage costs. The more records you have on-line,
the longer it takes to find the one you are looking for. And while
the price of magnetic disks continues to plummet, many legacy systems
employ older technology which makes adding disk space very expensive.
Often
times information is not’t easily obtainable in the form or format
desired. Most IMS departments have a large backlog of requests for
special reports that they simply can’t fulfill. Liberty’s COLD implementation
makes it easy to capture, reformat, store and retrieve information
in a meaningful way.
You
may also want to integrate computer-generated data with image data.
Rather than printing out a document and then scanning it back into
an imaging system, COLD capabilities let you integrate both data
and image quickly and easily.
How
does it work? 
Liberty’s implementation of COLD is a comprehensive solution that
captures the output of a computer system (either from a file or
a custom on-line process), cleans up this data to remove any unwanted
control characters or formatting information and then extracts the
meaningful portions of the data for storage or export.
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