The Capital Collections online library offers a large range of images from the collection of Edinburgh City Libraries and Museums. Edinburgh City Council use iBase software to curate the images and make them available via a custom-built public website, where users can order prints or digital copies of them.
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 web site.
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. At the same time, iBase developers worked on the custom functionality that had been agreed on and added it to the standard features of the core product.
Features of this digital online library include:
In addition to providing members of the public with a valuable local resource, the Capital Collections website has proved to be a strong source of revenue for the council.
The Local Studies collection contains many thousands of photographs of Aberdeen. They are committed to making all of these images available to users worldwide.
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