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TWA ArcView manages your digital files. It is a system for storing, retrieving, indexing, acquiring and distributing digitised content relating to different collections within your archive. The format of these files can be almost anything from images and PDFs to movies and audio content.
Recent examples of a TWA ArcView installation (please click the images to visit each website):
 Denbydale & Kirkburton Archive
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 Bradfield Archives |
 Wigan Leisure & Culture Trust Online Photographic Archive |
 The Sandhurst Collection
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 Stocksbridge & District History Society |
Q. Are your digitised collections stored across multiple mediums – CD’s, DVD’s, Hard Drives, Servers?
A. Move all of your JPEG, TIFF, PDF & MPEG files in to one location and manage them using TWA ArcView, saving you time.
Q. Do you have problems accessing your digital files when you are not in your office or building?
A. Move all of your files on to a secure hosted server and access the files from any location that has an internet browser. You can control who has access to TWA ArcView, which collections they have access to and whether or not they have read or write permissions, allowing more flexible working patterns.
Q. Do you have a digitisation strategy?
A. Do you know how to digitise bound or difficult materials and to the correct resolution and file format? Are your collections copyright cleared? Do you know which items might generate the most interest from the public? TownsWeb Archiving Ltd offer an onsite and offsite digitisation service and we will import the digitised files directly into TWA ArcView. Our consultants can also offer advice regarding a long term digitisation strategy, making your strategy future proof.
Q. Would it be useful if the meta-data held against some files were different to those held against others?
A. For example if you have images of paintings by a certain ‘Artist’ then of course you would like to store the ‘Artist Name’ and perhaps the type of painting; ‘Portrait’, ‘Impressionist’, ‘Contemporary’ etc. However if you have images of newspapers, photographs, journals or movie footage then you will want to store completely different meta-data content. TWA ArcView allows you to define your own set of meta-data for each type of media that you hold, giving you greater flexibility in multimedia repositories.
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Q. When you digitise new material how easy is it to show this new content on your website?
A. TWA ArcView has it’s very own web content management system. Any new images or changes to meta-data can be shown online immediately. You can edit and add content to other pages too. For example you can change and add a news story to your news pages without any knowledge of html. Changing content on a monthly basis can give an instant fresh look to your website.
Q. Do you get lots of visitors to your website?
A. Is your site optimised for the search engines (SEO)? Do you send out regular email newsletters encouraging members or previous visitors to check out the new content on your website? TWA ArcView allows you to set up SEO options for each of your web pages. Furthermore, TownsWeb Archiving’s web developers can submit your site to search engines and can provide software and training to show you how to store your visitor details and then keep in regular contact with them via great looking email newsletters, potentially increasing your core offering to a wider audience.
Q. Do you have concerns about members of the public downloading content from your website when they shouldn’t be?
A. TWA ArcView allows you to watermark images and control the size and resolution of any images that appear on your website, giving you piece of mind and control over your images.
Q. Are there any interesting and unique parts of your collections which members of the public might be willing to pay to gain access?
A. Do you get requests for photographic prints of your images or requests for images at a certain resolution? Do you have any socially rich or genealogy/ancestry content which members of the public or research organisations might be willing to pay an annual subscription to access? TWA ArcView allows you to set up different revenue models for each of your different collections. This is a great way to generate income.
Q. Do you have the staff, time, equipment & expertise to handle enquiries and orders for photographic prints?
A. TownsWeb Archiving Ltd work in partnership with you. We can receive orders via your website, process them, print them, despatch them directly to your customer and then pass the revenue on to you. Leaving you to concentrate on your day to day business. This saves you time, money and generates a valuable income stream.
“WLCT have a large collection of historic photographs comprising around 30,000 images in a variety of formats including original prints, glass plates, lantern slides and 35mm negatives. Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund, we were able to get 5,000 images digitised and make them accessible through a website. After a tendering process, we chose TownsWeb Archiving Ltd to digitise the images, provide us with a collections management system, develop a public website where prints could be ordered and handle the orders of prints and despatch them to the customer. TownsWeb Archiving Ltd were unique in their ability to offer specialist scanning, in-house software development and customer fulfilment services.
Through this joint venture with TownsWeb Archiving we are hoping that the public will have better access to their heritage and any revenue generated will help us fund the digitisation of further photographs. We would certainly recommend TownsWeb Archiving to others.”
Lisa Keys, Exhibition Officer (see: http://wiganimages.wlct.org/)
Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust
“We are putting the archive online as funding permits, so the opportunity to generate income is welcome. Family historians are our biggest market, so the next stage will be to add further records such as personal information sheets and correspondence to fill out the history of individual officers. We are very happy with the services TownsWeb provide in helping us achieve those aims.”
Dr Anthony Morton, Curator (see: http://wiganimages.wlct.org/)
The Sandhurst Collection
If you would like to see a demonstration of TWA ArcView then please feel free to contact us by phone (01536 713834) or email.
You can also request a free quotation.
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