C.D.I. Systems Announces the launch of Otzar-Hahochma project

JERUSALEM---February 16, 2005--C.D.I. Systems Ltd., a developer of online publishing solutions, announced the launch of another large-scale project based on NetIS™ - its superb online publishing platform.

The project is the Internet publishing of the World's Largest Online Jewish Library: Otzar Ha-Hochma (Hebrew for Treasure of Wisdom). The Online, unique library of Otzar Ha-Hochma contains over 16,000 Jewish books & roughly four million pages including thousands of extremely rare books that have not been published for hundreds of years and are now accessible to everyone.

NetIS™ - the platform of choice for this project - provides users with novel technological capabilities, applied to precious, hard-to-obtain content.

With NetIS™, Otzar Ha-Hochma publishers benefit from the mass-market exposure of the repository. Thanks to NetIS™ online publishing platform, this valuable resource can be placed on the Web without fear that the content will be stolen. The information is made available using various access models, based on predefined DRM (Digital Rights Management) profiles. Licensing options range from annual full-privilege subscriptions to limited usage privileges (e.g. the right for view content only, without the ability to print, save, or select for copy and paste). Limited usage relies on cumulative measuring of pages viewed from a selected book. By using NetIS™ capabilities, it is easy to create versatile sales models and satisfy the clientele.

Otzar Ha-Hochma users can now search and browse categorized representation of the repository, preview books, and purchase the rights to view or print the books, using NetIS™ advanced DRM technology and seamless e-commerce integration.

With NetIS™, universities, libraries, colleges & Yeshivas can purchase site licenses, while individual scholars around the world can also purchase portions from this vast database at flexible price models.

Otzar Ha-Hochma Library consists of books from every branch of Judaica and Jewish History and is more comprehensive than anything ever available before. Among these are early editions of well-known books; reproductions of manuscripts and first editions; pamphlets; periodicals; Torah collections published in single editions and much more. An extensive and detailed subject catalog enables quick and easy access to the repository.

The Otzar Ha-Hochma project has already been described as the greatest revolution since the printing press.

About C.D.I. Systems

Founded in 1992, C.D.I. Systems is a privately owned software house, headquartered in Israel. The Company's online publishing solutions have been deployed throughout the world as part of interactive legal productions on CD-ROM, dynamic professional databases (on-line and handheld), newspapers, phone directories, electoral registries and encyclopedias. C.D.I. Systems is the leading e-publisher of legal content in Israel and is a principal technology provider to the legal market in Germany, with a multitude of applications and customers, and including high profile applications such as the Dun and Bradstreet - Market analyzer, IDC Israel - Pay per view site, Legal Portal joint venture with Bezek (Israel telecommunication company) and Globes (Israel leading business newspaper).

Contact:
Liza Val
Marketing Manager
C.D.I. Systems
+972-2-587-0112
lizaval@cdisys.com