RCT - Our Heritage
RCT - Our Heritage uses iBase to manage digital heritage and cultural collection assets, bringing metadata, permissions and search into one governed DAM environment.
Case study
RCT - Our Heritage Digital Heritage & Cultural Collections
RCT Libraries Services supports digital heritage access with iBase DAM, creating an engaging online platform showcasing 20,000+ images, oral histories, and film archives for Rhondda Cynon Taf communities, enhancing public access to regional cultural treasures.
Project summary
Project Summary
iBase helps local heritage teams manage digital heritage and cultural collections for RCT - Our Heritage, keeping assets organised, searchable and governed.
Digital Heritage & Cultural Collections
The system connects local heritage collections with discovery, metadata and reuse needs.
Public Discovery
Local heritage teams can organise, protect and share digital assets through structured DAM workflows.
Project focus
Project Focus
The 'Our Heritage' pages explore the industrial, social, and cultural heritage of RCT and its three distinct locations of the Rhondda Valleys, the Cynon Valley, and Taff Ely.
'Our Collections' capture Rhondda Cynon Taf's social history through photographs, audio and film.
'Our Projects' enables visitors to find out about the heritage projects taking place within their communities, including Altered Images, whose creative heritage projects showcase the unique stories of RCT's communities.
Public Access
Public interfaces can make selected collections available to wider audiences.
Metadata Quality
Metadata workflows help preserve context and make assets easier to find and reuse.
Search and Discovery
Users can find relevant assets through structured search, metadata and browsing tools.
Asset Organisation
Assets can be grouped, described and retrieved without relying on disconnected folders.
DAM outcomes
DAM Outcomes
iBase helps RCT - Our Heritage 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
iBase has enabled Rhondda Cynon Taf Libraries Services to produce a website which records and showcases the history and heritage of RCT, and has made its collections more accessible and engaging to a wider range of people online.
Hannah Buckminster, Heritage Project Co-ordinator, RCT - Our Heritage
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