Flexibile, scalabe and secure. PastView provides everything an archive collection could wish for in a digital collections platform.

£160.00 / month

BILLED ANNUALLY
Get your digital collections online
PastView platform & website Enjoy access to the PastView management platform, and publish your digital collections with an easy website template.

50GB Cloud storageSupporting all common file formats, store up to 50GB of your digitised and born-digital collections.

Unlimited usersProviding full access to PastView's administrative platform. Purchase additional licenses for multiple users for simultaneous user access.

Online training session

£12.50 / month

 Addtional 50GB Storage 

BILLED ANNUALLY

£69.00 / month

Additional Licence

BILLED ANNUALLY

Do you want support to migrate & ingest your data?

Do you have pricing questions?

Visit our FAQs or email us at [email protected] to speak with one of our PastView experts.

Flexible, scalable and secure. PastView provides everything an archive collection could wish for in a digital collections platform.

PastView Platform +
Access & Discovery Website

£160.00 / month

BILLED ANNUALLY

PastView Platform & Website Enjoy access to the PastView management platform, and publish your digital collections with an easy collections website.

50GB Storage SpaceSupporting all common file formats, storage starting from 50GB of your digitised and born-digital collections.
Unlimited UsersProviding full access to PastView's administrative platform. Purchase additional licences for simultaneous user access.

Online TrainingContinue to learn through our online training programme with an initial 2-hour remote one-to-one session (for three users).

 Additional 50GB Storage

£12.50 / month

BILLED ANNUALLY

 Additional Licence

£69.00 / month

BILLED ANNUALLY

Looking for migration
& ingest services

Flexible digital collections management

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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.
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Scalable to any collection size

From modest community archives to vast corporate collections, PastView is versatile enough to accommodate and support continued growth.
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Built for you AND your audiences

A unique management and publishing platform, offering tailored solutions to archive holders whilst promoting and enhancing visitor engagement.
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Ready to discuss your PastView package?

Speak with one of our PastView experts, to discuss your organisation’s discovery & access needs.

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Ready to discuss your PastView package?

Speak with one of our PastView experts, to discuss your organisation’s discovery & access needs.

Flexible digital collections management

One platform suitable for all, scalable for any collection size. Developed for you, designed for your audiences.

Ready to discuss?

Speak with us about your discovery & access needs.

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What's included with PastView

Get your digital collections online with all of these wonderful opportunities included as standard:

As if access to the PastView collections management system, a branded digital collections website, unlimited administrative users, 50GB of storage and 2-hours of online training isn’t enough, take a look at the amazing opportunities that await you.

PastView Platform & Website Enjoy access to the PastView management platform, and publish your digital collections with an easy collections website.
50GB Storage SpaceSupporting all common file formats, storage starting from 50GB of your digitised and born-digital collections.
Unlimited UsersProviding full access to PastView's administrative platform. Purchase additional licenses for simultaneous user access.
Online TrainingContinue to learn through our online training programme with an initial 2-hour remote one-to-one session (for three users).
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
Audio Visual 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 engagement.
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

Add-ons

Choose from a range of additional features, generating revenue to support your collections.

Access

£19 / month

Members' Area

Control access to valued collections, with a fully configurable membership login.

£89 / month

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Authenticate visitors using a third party sign-on service to protect your collections.

Monetisation

£19 / month

Digital Downloads (Items)

Offer free digital downloads or set a fee and generate revenue from collections.

£39 / month

eCommerce Store

An online shop enables users to add items to their basket, edit and checkout securely.

£19 / month

Offline Copies

Visitors can download offline digital copies to their Kindle, PC, Mac, Tablet or Phone.

£19 / month

Perpetual Subscriptions

Define areas of your archive as either temporarily or indefinitely accessible.

£39 / month

Generate revenue by providing access through paid online subscriptions.

Collection Engagement

£POA

Exhibitions

Share the narratives within your archive through visually engaging digital stories.

£POA

Timelines

Timelines organise collections chronologically and are tailored to suit.

£POA

Virtual Reality Tour

Enhance discovery and access of internal spaces through VR immersive technology.

 Community

£POA

Comments

Allow users to engage with items by providing them a regulated space to comment.

£POA

Contributions

Allow users to suggest edits and contribute information at the click of a button.

Content Engagement

£POA

Social Media Sharing

Integrate archive content with your social media accounts, share images through social media with users.

Service Credits

£POA

Service Credit Pack

Looking to ingest content yourself? Service credit packs can be used to automatically recognise typed and handwritten text.

Additional services

Ready your material for ingest into the PastView platform with our additional services.

Data Services

 

Data Migration & Ingest

Our specialists are on hand to support you throughout the migration and ingest process, ensuring that your collections are prepared to take advantage of the extensive collection management features.

Bespoke Requirements

Do you have specific needs for the management and publishing of your digital collections?

Contact us, to begin scoping your bespoke requirements.

Platform Development

Our PastView experts can design, build, test, and implement additional features to meet the specific needs of your organisation.

Website Design

Seamlessly match with your organisation's brand identity or work with us to create a fully bespoke design for your digital collections.

API Integration

Are you using multiple systems? Speak with us to discuss how an API integration could ensure a seamless transfer between your existing systems and PastView.

Material Services

We're experts in safeguarding historical content, converting physical material to digital formats.

Visit TownsWeb Archiving, to explore how we can support your physical to digital transformation.

Digitisation

We can scan and index your material to create a robust, digital copy of your archive collection.

Learn more

Handwritten Transcription

Capture handwriting within your digital archive and convert this to searchable (machine-readable) text.

Learn more

Ready to discuss?

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