Heritage Digital Interactives Software and Server Space

Description

Provision of a technically robust web-based hosted software solution to provide an interface between the Gateshead Archive digital collections and interactive hardware located at Gateshead Central Library. This includes large touch tables/kiosks, presentation screens, and desktop computers used for research. The software solution provides a design interface that is fully customisable to present stories about the history of Gateshead including digitised content from the Gateshead Archive collections. Provision also includes an externally hosted server space to store our digital collection. Our collection is comprised of a range of digitised archival files including: photographs, maps, newspapers, scrapbooks and historic electoral registers, curated by Gateshead Council and Libraries. Some of this digitised content (primarily photographs) is currently hosted internally on servers located within the Council. Other material will be digitised over time from summer 2019. Keywords: Heritage, Culture, Interactive, Software, Library, Server Space