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Specialist Digitisation, Web and Image Management Services for the Heritage Sector

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Are you a museum, library or HE institution wishing to embark on a digitisation project but do not know where to start? Are you worried about who you can trust to offer you genuinely informed advice on your unique and fragile manuscripts or artefacts? Are you applying for a grant for digitisation but do not know what equipment you will need for the results you require? Do you need an image management system but have no in-house experience and a limited budget? Do you want to work with an organisation which will offer your staff specialist training so they can continue to develop the project? Are you simply looking for advice from someone in the field? IDP can help.

WHO WE ARE

IDP is an international project based at the British Library to make Silk Road manuscripts, artefacts, textiles and photographs available to all through conservation, digitisation, cataloguing, education and research. Our database of over 90,000 objects with over 130,000 high-quality images is available through our multi-lingual websites. It is the largest and most successful digitisation project of its kind.

WHY USE IDP?

With over a decade spent managing large and small digitisation, web and image management projects in the heritage sector, IDP has unrivalled expertise and experience. Our team of ten practising professionals frequently give advice to individuals and institutions worldwide and have worked as consultants, digitisers, image management and website designers on several external projects. We have trained staff in the UK and worldwide, worked on-site and off-site and consistently produced excellent quality images to schedule and within budget. You will not find a service with more experience or specialised expertise in the heritage sector.

WHAT WE OFFER

Notes:

  1. IDP is in contact with other specialist digitisation services and will direct you to them if they are more appropriate to your needs.
  2. IDP does not offer low or medium-end digitisation. We only work with institutions with heritage material. We do not offer data input, OCR or bound volume scanning.

Selected Projects

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To find out more contact IDP.

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