45 years of experience

2,500 global clients

10 PB new data archived each year

1500+ legacy tape drives and machines available for use

Digital Heritage

Build, manage, enrich and protect digital collections so history, context, and knowledge are preserved for future generations.

"Structured data in heritage is foundational to everything an organization or their data users might want to do with that information, from preservation right through to sharing, linking and building other services on top of it."
Allison Rivera
Director of Digital Heritage Services

Cultural institutions, family collections, commercial archives, and libraries care for unique materials that cannot be replaced.

From natural disasters to everyday handling risks, these collections face constant threats. We can help you protect your heritage by building, improving, or migrating digital archives to keep your collections accessible. Beyond digitization, we focus on context, metadata, and long-term access, protecting originals and bringing collections to life by making them easier to discover, share, and use by you and anyone else you grant access to.

How We Help

Preserve fragile materials

Our experience in preservation techniques gives us the skills required to carefully digitize your delicate documents, images, film, and audio. This protects them from further handling or environmental damage and makes sure their valuable information is preserved for future generations.

Add structure and context

By adding metadata and structuring records we open up your digitized collections, making them searchable and understandable, bringing new information to light and creating opportunities for discovery.

Expand access responsibly

We help you share collections more widely, increasing opportunities for collaboration and engagement with education, researchers, or the public while maintaining appropriate controls.

Plan for the long term

Our approaches prioritize keeping your digital archives accessible and usable now and, in the future, as collections grow and as technologies and standards evolve.

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How We Can Help

"Real value emerges when clean, structured data is shared beyond a single archive. Interoperable formats allow researchers to connect scattered fragments of information across collections, surfacing new insights that no one institution could find alone."
Angela Hatton
Camden Place House Heritage Committee Member
Our work in digital heritage

How Can We Help You?

See how cultural institutions protect fragile collections, add context to archives, and expand access to historically significant materials.