An archive that cannot be searched is a warehouse. The work is not in storing the material - it is in the metadata, the search, and the patience to make a thirty-year-old scanned report as findable as something published this morning.
What we build
- Catalogues with the metadata your field actually uses, not a generic content type bent into shape.
- Full-text and faceted search across formats - documents, images, audio, video.
- Bulk ingest and controlled vocabularies, because collections arrive in batches and rarely arrive tidy.
- Persistent URLs and open access where the licence allows, so citations survive the next redesign.
Work like this
- SPREP Virtual Library - the digital repository of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, the single place its publications live.
- Christian Music Archive - a reference resource covering 2,600 artists and 13,700 albums, rebuilt from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 with e-commerce.
- Manhattan Production Music - a searchable production music library for media, film and advertising.