Our teams of strategists, designers and engineers provide consultancy services and software products for cultural heritage institutions informed by decades of collective sector experience.

Showcasing and enriching collections for discovery and engagement

Whether exploring digital collections at scale or creating a tailored user experience to focus on one treasured item, we can ensure that your target audience realise the potential that your collections have to offer.

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Creating research, teaching and crowdsourcing projects for digitised material

Our crowdsourcing and annotation tools balance ease-of-use with powerful features and flexibility to meet a broad range of use cases for both public engagement and scholarly workflows.

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Establishing the digital infrastructure to manage and utilise your digital collections

We can design and implement a technical foundation to support your digital strategy, joining digitisation workflows with preservation systems and delivering digitised collections and metadata online.

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Our clients

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getty@2x
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PaulMellon@2x
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V&A@2x
NLW@2x
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UAL@2x
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DELFT@2x
SOAS@2x
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Recent blog posts

IIIF Manifest Editor —commentary on first round of user group feedback

Digirati are working on a new IIIF Manifest Editor as part of Practical Applications of IIIF, a Foundation project within the the AHRC-funded Towards a National Collection Programme.

Reaching into collections to tell stories

How much time and effort can you spend on bespoke narratives built from collection content? If your collection is available via the IIIF Presentation API, then it could be less than you think.

Annotating music in IIIF

The Timeliner project creates both visually interesting representations of music and an output that is interoperable with other tools in the IIIF ecosystem.

Prototyping with Material Design

Material Design is a design system and library of components that designers and developers can use to assemble user interfaces, without having to design and code everything from scratch.