Book a DemoEdinburgh City Libraries uses iBase for "Capital Collections", a digital image library featuring interactive Edinburgh maps, decade-based timeline navigation, and e-commerce for print and digital downloads.
iBase helps library and museum teams manage Edinburgh's digital heritage collections and e-commerce workflows, keeping assets organised, searchable and governed.
Teams at Edinburgh City Libraries and Museums and Galleries use iBase to manage digital heritage collections and e-commerce workflows, bringing metadata, permissions and search into one governed DAM environment.
The system connects heritage collections with rights, ordering and public access needs.
Library and museum teams can organise, protect and share digital assets through structured DAM workflows.
Capital Collections is the digital image library for Edinburgh Libraries and Museums and Galleries. It provides online access to many of the collections held in the Central Library and highlights from the Museums' collections.
Edinburgh City Libraries staff use iBase's management interface to upload and curate content, manage relationships between artists and works of art, create exhibitions for special events and publish the results to the public website.
The public website was built in cooperation with libraries staff and a third-party design company - once the functionality and layout was agreed, the designers provided iBase with sliced Photoshop files that were used to incorporate the design elements into the standard template.
Collection records can be connected with images, documents and supporting metadata.
Geolocation data is displayed on an interactive map of Edinburgh, with relevant results grouped automatically for easier browsing.
Images can be grouped by decade, giving visitors a timeline route into the history of Edinburgh.
A detailed subject hierarchy helps new visitors move into rich collection content without needing specialist knowledge first.
iBase helps Edinburgh City Libraries and Museums and Galleries keep collection assets organised, searchable and ready for approved reuse.
Metadata, maps, timelines, exhibitions and e-commerce routes sit alongside the assets, giving teams a governed source for public discovery and day-to-day work.
Staff and users can reach approved material more quickly, with less reliance on fragmented storage or manual transfers.
iBase's digital asset management software met our custom requirements perfectly.
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