Materials

Whatever your material type, it’s guaranteed to integrate perfectly with PastView to reach and engage online audiences.

Built for digitised and born-digital collections

PastView was purpose-built with the heritage industry and the sector’s unique needs at the very forefront of design and development. So, regardless of the combined material types your archive may contain, PastView will ensure a perfect partnership.

Books

Turn the digital pages of your bound volumes by simply clicking and dragging the cursor on a PC, or sliding a finger across a tablet, mobile, or touchscreen device, taking your readers beyond the limits of glass cabinet displays and secure vaults.

3D Page Turning

Bring your books to life with the smooth, elegant, ‘real feel’ digital capabilities of BookExplorer’s 3D technology.

Optical Character Recognition

Makes the information within your bound journal collections more accessible, aiding instant retrieval wherever content matches a set of given words or phrases.

Subscriptions

Generate long-term income from your bound volume collections, segregating your content to make your archive more financially self-sufficient.

Documents

Unbound documents can take the form of letters, reports, invoices, or any other loose, physical item. Make your digital documents accessible with a wide range of exciting and engaging features that your audiences will love.

3d Page Turning

Turn the digital pages of your loose documents, taking your readers beyond the limitations of glass cabinet displays.

Related Collections

Establish a relationship between your items to connect and reconnect across your collections to enhance discovery and access.

Subscriptions

Generate long-term income from your loose documents , segregating your content to make your archive more financially self-sufficient.

Photos

One of the quickest and easiest ways to capture important moments and events, photographs make up the bulk of many archive collections. Bring your photos to life with a range of technologically advanced features for optimum engagement.

High Res Zoom

Reveal the ultra-fine detail contained within your photographs with a high res zoom function that exposes every intricacy and precious detail.

Compare / Contrast

Display selected photographs side-by-side, sliding between images to expose and marvel over the similarities and differences evolving over time.

Physical Print Requests

Enable visitors to have and hold copies of selected items from within your archive, generating revenue and designing a more financially self-sufficient archive.

Objects

Objects are a special archive material that people typically want to touch and view. They teach us about the past’s traditions and fashions but can be difficult to store and share physically. Now you can enjoy object freedom and optimum engagement.

Object Viewer

Enables your visitors to manipulate and turn your digitised objects through a full 360 degrees removing physical restrictions and enhancing accessibility.

Items

Organise your item files (whether born-digital or digitised) into collections, assigning attributes and filtering into categories and subcategories.

Online Shop

Open an online shop, adding any of your digital or born-digital items and let visitors add to their basket, edit quantities, and checkout securely.

Maps

Large format items are a popular material often taking the form of maps, plans, blueprints, newspapers, posters, and technical drawings. They can be tricky material to handle and view unless you have just the right features to optimise engagement.

High Res Zoom

Reveal the ultra-fine detail contained within your large format items using high res zoom to expose every intricacy and precious detail.

Related Entities

Establish a relationship between your items to connect and reconnect across your collections to enhance discovery and access.

Offline Copies

Let your visitors retain copies of your items on their personal devices with offline copies, granting the freedom to explore whenever and however they like.

Audio Visual

Born digital collections are created primed and ready for publishing without the need for digitisation or at risk of wear and tear. All they really need is a suitable publishing platform.

Media Player

Media Player provides a sleek way for you to display digitised analogue film and tape, opening up exciting opportunities for your collections. Upload oral histories, stories, short films, or interviews for an enhanced media experience.

Audio Transcription

Create a readable record of who is speaking and what they say with audio transcription, time stamping audio content to make it completely searchable.

Members Area

Protect access with a members area, securing revenue generating features through personal password protected accounts and secure login facilities.

Born Digital

Born digital collections are created primed and ready for publishing without the need for digitisation or at risk of wear and tear. All they really need is a suitable publishing platform.