Dumfries and Galloway Council streamlined digital heritage management with iBase DAM, achieving enhanced global access to 15,000+ historical images and regional cultural assets, transforming public engagement with local history while preserving valuable collections for future generations.
Dumfries and Galloway Council, Cultural Services holds an important and extensive collection of images relating to the region. These have been built up over many years. Currently there are over 15,000 images in the collection, and it is these that have been digitised for this website.
Postcards, glass negatives, transparencies, engravings, lantern slides and photographic prints both individual and from albums are all held, and copies of them form the basis of the general collection. There are many tens of thousands more held in special collections, and these will be added to the site as time allows.
Advanced search capabilities include:
Fully comprehensive searching with multiple filter options
Advanced search and refine functionality
Google-style search with auto spell check and search suggestions to ensure visitors always return results from any search for maximum engagement
Multiple light-boxes / saved selections
Page by page view of documents, including PDFs and digital archives
