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Wigan Archives: add more online photos for purchase…

An additional set of more than 200 aerial photographs have now been added to the Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust (WLCT) online photographic library. This fascinating set of old aerial images were found within the archives of the Councils Planning Department. They show striking redevelopment images of the town centre and the outskirts of Wigan in [...]

AIM Revise Sources of Funding List

AIM has revised the sources of funding list on their website as part of an overall upgrade of their site.  There is a web link to each funding opportunity. See: http://www.aim-museums.co.uk/images/uploads/Funding%20Sources.pdf

Access & Revenue through Digitisation – FREE Presentation

If you work in a Register Office you may be interested to know about a ‘Supplier Showcase’ event taking place on 14th October at the Moat House in Stafford. You will have a chance to personally speak to suppliers of new products and services that will help you to run your service or business more [...]

Grants from The Endangered Archives Programme at The British Library

Endangered Archives Programme at The British Library is again accepting applications for grants. More information is available on their website: http://eap.bl.uk/ or by contacting them direct: endangeredarchives@bl.uk Their Web Pages also have details of past projects, and the records they have copied.

“Embrace Digitisation to Survive” – that’s the message produced from a new MLA Report

A new report says that libraries must also engage with users by using digital technology such as SMS, e-mail and social media. They should also use e-books, digital access, fundraising online, APIs and mash-ups. Some digital initiatives may require investment up front to realise savings. Others may generate savings or constitute additional services which open [...]

New ‘Business Continuity Service’ for Local Authorities

In 2004 the Civil Contingencies Act was introduced to ensure that there is a statutory duty within UK local authorities to hold business continuity plans for all of the functions that they provide. In some cases this has meant that records have been placed within ‘fireproof’ cabinets. But most ‘fireproof’ cabinets are actually just ‘fire [...]

Digital research & development fund for arts and culture

The Digital Research & Development Fund for Arts and Culture is looking to support arts and cultural organisations across England who want to work with digital technologies to: expand their audience reach and engagement and/or explore new business models A key element of the fund is partnerships between arts and cultural organisations and technology providers [...]

TownsWeb project features on ‘Museums, Libraries & Archives’ website

One  of our recent projects is featured on the MLA website. It’s a project that we undertook for Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust where we: Digitised a collection of photographs Placed the collection online for members of the public to view and to order photographic print copies Provided WLCT with an administration system for them to [...]

ISO extends PDF/A standard for long-term archiving

The PDF/A Competence Center has announced that the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has released part two of the PDF/A standard, ISO 19005-2. The standard is a PDF extension for the long-term archiving of electronic documents. Among the features it provides are protection against tampering, support for embedding a document’s colour information and the ability [...]

People and places in the Isle of Man: a photo digitisation project

Manx National Heritage is the Isle of Man government agency responsible for the Museums, Archives & Heritage of an island with a unique history. TownsWeb Archiving Ltd won the contract to digitise a large proportion of their photographic archive showing people and places of the Isle of Man. Click below to read the full Case [...]