Science Museum Group
Science Museum Group uses iBase to manage digital preservation and asset workflows, bringing metadata, permissions and search into one governed DAM environment.
Case study
Science Museum Group Digital Preservation and Asset Management
The Science Museum Group is devoted to the history and contemporary practice of science, medicine, technology, industry and media, with the most comprehensive and significant collections anywhere in the world.
Project summary
Project Summary
iBase helps museum and heritage teams at Science Museum Group manage digital preservation and asset workflows, keeping material organised, searchable and governed.
Digital Preservation and Asset Management
The system connects preservation assets with metadata, records and access needs.
Digital Preservation
Museum and heritage teams can organise, protect and share digital assets through structured DAM workflows.
Project focus
Project Focus
At the beginning, the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television - as it was known at the time - was the first user of an iBase system in 1995, followed by the Science Museum in London, the Railway Museum in York, and other sites that later came together as the Science Museum Group.
As technology improved, digital management and preservation systems were combined to operate as an integrated whole across the entire Science Museum Group.
Work continues to further rationalise the systems architecture and make the best use of the latest technologies and techniques to maintain a mass digitisation pipeline system.
Long-Term Platform
iBase has supported Science Museum Group collection work from early single-site use through to an integrated group-wide system.
Digitisation Pipeline
The system supports ongoing rationalisation of architecture and mass digitisation pipeline work.
Media Handling
Video, audio, image and document assets can be managed together in one searchable system.
Network Sign-In
Active Directory authentication lets users sign in with existing credentials while administrators manage access through standard network tools.
DAM outcomes
DAM Outcomes
iBase helps Science Museum Group keep preservation and collection assets organised, searchable and ready for approved reuse.
Metadata, permissions, identity integration and long-running preservation workflows sit alongside the assets, giving teams a 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.
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