Archive Digitisation & Metadata

Archive Digitisation & Metadata

Future-proof your fragile prints, negatives and documents with high-resolution scanning and scholarly metadata.

Heritage Focus combines conservation-grade capture systems, colour-managed workflows and international cataloguing standards (Dublin Core, IPTC, VRA Core) to transform physical archives into searchable, shareable digital collections. Our team of archivists, photographers and data specialists ensures both fidelity and findability.

Key Deliverables

• Condition assessment & handling protocol
• 6K–12K DSLR or medium-format scans (TIFF & JPEG derivatives)
• Colour calibration & file-naming conventions
• Metadata schema design (keywords, geographic & temporal tags)
• Cloud-ready Digital Asset Management (DAM) setup
• Preservation copies on LTO / RAID with checksum reports

Typical 10-Week Timeline

1. Weeks 1–2 — Audit, scope & handling protocol
2. Weeks 3–4 — Metadata schema & sample digitisation
3. Weeks 5–8 — Full-scale scanning & QA
4. Week 9 — DAM ingestion & access testing
5. Week 10 — Final backups, training & project hand-off

Success Metrics

• Items digitised on schedule • <1 % rescan rate • 100 % checksum verification • Search retrieval ≤2 s per query