The London Picture Archive provides quick and easy access to large areas of the wonderful visual collections at London Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Art Gallery. It invites visitors to explore the collections using a range of enquiry points. They can then view high quality images of the works on screen, read information about them and order colour prints and digital files.
The London Picture Archive contains over 250,000 photographs, prints and drawings as well as over 1,000 maps from London Metropolitan Archives. It is a constantly growing collection, with new material being added every week.
The London Picture Archive is visited by a huge array of casual users, researchers, academics, media outlets and creative industries.
The London Picture Archive is visited by a huge array of casual users, researchers, academics, media outlets and creative industries.
Its rich and diverse content spanning hundreds of years of London history make it an idea resource for anyone wanting to discover more about or represent London through the ages.
Recently updated to take advantage of the constant improvements in technology, the London Picture Archive offers the user multiple ways to interact with its content, including:
The Lowry use an iBase DAM system for the management of their large collection of digitised images, and for making them available and searchable internally.
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Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, use an iBase DAM system to manage and distribute internally their extensive collection of digital assets.
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St Albans Museums Service uses an iBase digital asset management system for the control and internal distribution of their extensive collection of heritage digital assets, as well as a publicly-accessible terminal.
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Digital assets could represent your commercial picture library, art collection, video repository, public interest archive, or anything else where content has been digitised.
Digital assets could represent your commercial picture library, art collection, video repository, public interest archive, or anything else where content has been digitised.
