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DIGITISATION Photos

Piql provides services for digitising, restoring and safeguarding your irreplaceable pho- tos. As a specialist provider of photo digitisation, we offer a complete solution ensuring high resolution capture, digital preservation and long-term storage.

THE CHALLENGE

BENEFITS

So much of our heritage is captured by photographs, with each one telling more than words could describe about a particular moment. Over time, these photographs deteriorate, due to chemical corrosion, colour fading and structural weakening.

• Cost effective.

• State-of-the-art technology for all kinds of photo digitisation (including 3D objects, books, films, photography, glass plate negatives, painting, sculpture and drawings). • Local training for your staff, system updates, quality control, and maintenance.

These fragile moments cannot survive forever without digitisation.

Key challenges include: • lack of awareness of the benefits of a digital archive and the risk to analogue archives prevent many institutions from beginning a digitisation project • lack of resources also prevents many institutions from investing in digitisa- tion, even when it is a priority • insufficient metadata encoding during digitisation creates challenges for managing the new digital photo archive.

Once digitised, the photos can then be preserved into the future on a durable and resilient medium to ensure longevity and future access.

• Fast and easy solution.

USECASE

We were chosen to provide digitisation services for a national post office that held a rich historical photographic archive. We developed a digitisation plan, tailored to their requirements and the content of their archive. Our professional scanning ensured the integrity and protection of the original copies while cap- turing extensive metadata, to aid in the management of their new digital archive. Our flexible and cost-effective approach ensured the delivery of a successful digitisation project for this client.