DIGITISATION FOR LIBRARIES
PLEASE TAKE JUST ONE MOMENT TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS....
- Does your library hold a unique local history collection?
- Perhaps a Photographs Collection, A Set of Trade Directories or Electoral Registers, Old Newspapers, Parish Council Minutes or other interesting items?
- Are these items popular and therefore deteriorating due to public usage?
- Would your library be interested in generating potential new revenue? Placing this valuable archive online and allowing members of the public to download files or order prints generating completely new and untapped revenue.
DIGITISATION
Our specialist flat-bed, overhead equipment is non-contact which means that we have the ability to digitise:
- Very old, fragile and deteriorating items
- Bound items (without removing the spine)
- Very small (postage stamp size) to very large items (3mx2m)
- Fiche, film, 35mm slides, glass plates, cine-film & vhs film
We can offer this scanning service on site at your library. Alternatively we can scan items offsite and offer a personal collection and return service of your precious items.
Click here to read more on Heritage Digitisation.
TRANSCRIPTION, META-DATA and OCR
We can transcribe the contents of your archive and add appropriate meta-data. If your items are text based then we can OCR them and make them fully text searchable too.
Click here to read more on out Data Capture & Transcription services.
COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Our collections management system is called ArcView and is hosted online – meaning any of your staff from any location can access it via the Internet. The Collections Management System will allow you to maintain your digital archive and it is unique in the fact that it will also allow you control and maintain the digital archive that the public can see online.
Click here to read more on our Collection Management System.
PUBLIC ACCESS
Our web development team will create a website where members of the public can view your digital archive. It will be hosted on our servers but will sit neatly and transparently within the Library’s own website.
If you are interested in generating revenue from your archive then we can install various ‘purchase’ options where members of the public can download images or request a print of an image.
Click here to read more on our Public Access Services.
DEALING WITH ORDERS AND EARNING REVENUE
TownsWeb Archiving will take orders via the website on your behalf. Furthermore, if a customer requests a photograph of an image we will print it, package it and despatch it directly to the customer on your behalf. Each month we will send you a report showing all of the orders that have been taken for that month along with a breakdown of all transactions. We will then credit your account with any profit made.
CASE STUDY
TownsWeb Archiving Ltd helped a Culture Trust to generate revenue from their Photographic Archive. Click Here to find out how.
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
If you would like a quotation for any works then please complete our quotation form.
Alternatively drop us an email or give us a call: 01536 713834.
