Flexible digital collections management
One platform suitable for all
Regardless of the size and diversity of your collections, PastView is flexible enough to meet all of your management and publishing needs.
Scalable to any collection size
From modest community archives to vast corporate collections, PastView is versatile enough to accommodate and support continued growth.
Built for you AND your audiences
A unique management and publishing platform, offering tailored solutions to archive holders whilst promoting and enhancing visitor engagement.
What's included with PastView
Get your digital collections online with all of these wonderful opportunities included as standard.
| Collection Management | ||
| Attributes | Organise data by assigning attributes that will drive your search and improve access. |  |
| Attributes Sets | Use attribute sets to create the sub categories and filters to power your search. | |
| Collections | Add or remove items, create sub-collections, set rights and limits, and take control. | |
| Entities | Determine specific labels in order to tag and connect items across your collection. | |
| Imports | Add as little or as much as you like to your digital collections through our bulk importer. | |
| Items | Create well structured, highly searchable collections from your diverse digital files. | |
| Metadata | Rename items within collections in bulk and update metadata from collections in bulk. | |
| Tagging | Link separate items within your collection by creating tags to connect them. | |
| Data Capture Services | ||
| Automatic Audio Transcription (AVT) | Convert spoken word in your audio collections to a readable, searchable text format.
(Credits required) |
Credits required |
| Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) | Transcribe handwritten text with HTR to enable it to be selected, copied and searched.
(Credits required) |
Credits required |
| Optical Character Recognition (OCR) | Make typed text searchable through optical character recognition (OCR).
(Credits required) |
Credits required |
| PDF Text Extraction | Retrieve 100% of text within PDF documents to support the discovery of your materials. | |
| Content Management | ||
| Action Buttons | Create action buttons throughout your site and control where the are embedded. | |
| Assets | Enjoy content flexibility by saving and linking to files outside of your archive. | |
| Menus | Design and control how you wish your users to engage with and navigate your website. | |
| Pages | Create additional pages to better organise and share information with your users. | |
| Posts | Engage with your users and keep them up-to-date with organised forms of engagements. | |
| Snippets | Showcase your content through a range of editable presentational features and tools. | |
| System Management | ||
| Enquiries | Enable users to raise queries by simply completing and submitting a contact form. | |
| Roles | Manage and share admin responsibility with the allocation of roles and permissions. | |
| User Management | Create additional users to manage, edit or add to your digital collections. | |
| Visibility | Select what items to make visible online and what image details to make available. | |
| System Management | ||
| Reporting (GA) | Gather data and visitor trends, generating reports and sharing progress. | |
| View available add-ons | View additional services |
