Bradford Museums and Galleries
Teams at Bradford Museums and Galleries use iBase to manage industrial heritage assets, bringing metadata, permissions and search into one governed DAM environment.
Case study
Bradford Museums and Galleries Industrial Heritage Digital Collection Management
Teams at Bradford Museums and Galleries use iBase DAM for an online photographic archive of 350,000+ historic images organised into four main collections: Aerial, Commerce, Industry and People.
Project summary
Project Summary
iBase helps museum and heritage teams manage Bradford Museums and Galleries' industrial heritage collections, keeping assets organised, searchable and governed.
Industrial Heritage Digital Collection Management
The system connects industrial heritage collections with discovery, metadata and reuse needs.
Public Discovery
Museum and heritage teams can organise, protect and share digital assets through structured DAM workflows.
Project focus
Project Focus
The photographic library of Bradford Museums and Galleries is housed at Bradford Industrial Museum, Eccleshill, Bradford. It consists of more than 350,000 glass and film negatives and prints.
Visitors are offered many ways to explore the content to lead them immediately to the most relevant and interesting photographs.
To keep returning visitors engaged with new content, the homepage contains a Recently Digitised section that only displays new content added in the previous 3 months.
Public Access
Public interfaces can make selected collections available to wider audiences.
Workflow Support
Configured workflows help teams manage review, approval and publication processes.
Search and Discovery
Users can find relevant assets through structured search, metadata and browsing tools.
Metadata Quality
Metadata workflows help preserve context and make assets easier to find and reuse.
DAM outcomes
DAM Outcomes
iBase helps Bradford Museums and Galleries keep digital assets organised, searchable and ready for approved reuse.
Metadata, permissions and access controls sit alongside the assets, giving teams a single governed source for day-to-day work.
Staff and users can reach approved material more quickly, with less reliance on fragmented storage or manual transfers.
Client view
Client Perspective
Through many years of working with iBase it's always been reassuring to know that comprehensive help and support is just a phone call away.
John Ashton, Photo Library Assistant, Bradford Museums
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