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How can PastView be used?

Configure PastView to achieve your digital access and discovery goals, offering options for public, private, and monetised access to your digital collections.

Public

Engage your audience with innovative publishing features designed to captivate and enhance interaction with your digital collections.

Private

Safeguard the value and integrity of your most precious digital collections by providing controlled access exclusively.

Monetise

Monetise your digital collections with income-generating features that deepen audience engagement and support sustainability.

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Discuss how you can take advantage of all PastView discovery & access features.

What's in your collection?

Whatever your material type, PastView will enhance how you publish and share.

Your Books

See how Burma Star published their books online to enhance access and discovery.

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Books

See how Burma Star published their books online to enhance access and discovery.

Page Turning
Harness Metadata
Magnifying Glass Zoom
Keyword Search
Advanced Filters

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All features

Whether managing, publishing or generating revenue, hand select features to realise your access and discovery goals.

Website design services

Excite & engage your audiences, with PastView's built in website design tools or explore our bespoke design services.

Ingest & migration services

Optimise collection organisation with our data support services to realise your archive's discovery and access potential.

Who's PastView built for?

Industry

Promote brand value, empower digital management and take control.

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Cultural Heritage

Unlock collection value, harness technology and enjoy autonomy.

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Government

Overcome physical barriers and protect staff time and valuable resources.

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Business & Corporate

Memberships & Societies

How PastView works

At its core, PastView provides users with an easy way to manage their collections, from uploading to editing and publishing controls.

Explore all collection management features

All features

Whether managing, publishing or generating revenue, hand select features to realise your access and discovery goals.

Website design services

Excite & engage your audiences, with PastView's built in website design tools or explore our bespoke design services.

Ingest & migration services

Optimise collection organisation with our data support services to realise your archive's discovery and access potential.

How PastView works

Enjoy complete control of your collection data, establishing the terms and details that will support the creation of highly effective digital collection structures.

Explore all collection management features

All features

Whether managing, publishing or generating revenue, hand select features to realise your access and discovery goals.

Website design services

Excite & engage your audiences, with PastView's built in website design tools or explore our bespoke design services.

Ingest & migration services

Optimise collection organisation with our data support services to realise your archive's discovery and access potential.

Stories from our users

HSBC (NEW)

Sharing over 150 years of story, culture and brand heritage

Working in the vault, we are fortunate to be able to flick through photograph albums, read correspondence files, and watch old film footage from years gone by... However, this is the first time that we have been able to open up our cultural heritage for everyone to explore – wherever they are in the world. It is a very exciting moment for the Archives team.

Tina Staples, Global Head of Archives

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Sanhurst Collection (NEW)

A military approach to Managing and organising data

With PastView we are now able to edit our content and manage our online data in a way we were never able to do before. Incorporating a legacy system into a new format was understandably not straight-forward. However, the team at TownsWeb were especially patient and approachable; being keen to ensure that the system met our needs - which it certainly does.

Dr Sebastian Puncher, Deputy Creator

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ARA (NEW)

ARA's membership publication, now online and fully searchable

We are always looking for ways to improve the benefits we provide to our members. ARC Magazine has always been a key benefit and the last 18 months has seen it transformed with its move to online publication. Hosting on the PastView platform takes this to a new level and provides even more benefit with the great search function and the ability to access all the back issues, going back to 2011, in one place.

John Chambers, Chief Executive

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Burma Star Memorial Fund (NEW)

Remembering 'The forgotten army'

Visitors to the website will find a comprehensive archive which paints a detailed picture of the complexities of the Burma Campaign. We are delighted that every element of the archive can be searched in an accurate, responsive and simple manner. As we had requested, the website also incorporates the facility for veterans’ families to add individual records, stories, valuable diaries and photographs.

Jeremy Archer, Trustee

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Society Jersey (NEW)

A commitment to the country’s history, language and antiquities

The value of any collection is only ever fully realised when its contents are accessible, so we needed a user-friendly platform that did not sacrifice the needs of serious research. We needed a way to showcase the breadth and depth of our collections in an attractive way that offered powerful, customisable search options when users required them.

Gerard Sargent, Digitisation & Outreach Co-ordinator

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Society Jersey (NEW)

A commitment to to preserving and promoting Scotland’s business and industrial history

The Business Archives Council of Scotland has been delighted to work with Townsweb Archiving and their PastView platform to make our journal back catalogue available to all. PastView has transformed how we can search the 100s of articles published across the journals since 1977, allowing users to discover the rich resource of articles about Scottish business and industrial history.

Kiara King, Deputy Convenor

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Latest news & advice

PastView Blog Discover the digital collections with enhanced access thanks to PastView. Read our blog for advice on accessibility, news and features

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PastView is perfect for your... Digitised 3D Collections!
by Jess Sturman-Coombs on 7 November 2023 at 10:00 am
3D Collections are a wonderful material to be found within the archives; a special historical material made up of objects that people typically want to handle and view. They tell us so much about the past, about traditions and fashions and ways of thinking and being, but they are also subject to significant damage and potential loss through wear and tear. Difficult to store, they require their own space and demand specific climate and housing conditions to remain safe and protected. Thankfully, digitisation resolves the majority of these issues, protecting your 3D material and making it more accessible.