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title: Blog - Advice and insight into all things digitisation & archives | Marshall Parr
description: Latest news about UK digitisation & archives projects, expert advice on digitising, and insight from frontline information professionals.
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- [Digitisation](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/digitisation/) 
    - [Bound Volume Collections](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/digitisation/bound-volume-collections/)
    - Registers, guard books, journals, diaries and more
    - [Archive Collections](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/digitisation/archive-collections/)
    - From index cards, maps, posters and reports to letters
    - [Photograph Collections](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/digitisation/photograph-collections/)
    - All 35mm slides, glass plates, transparencies & photos
    - [Film Collections](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/digitisation/film-collections/)
    - Including aperture cards, microfilm and microfiche
    - [Audio Visual Collections](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/digitisation/audio-visual-collections/)
    - From Betamax, compact audio cassette and CD to VHS
    - [3-Dimensional Collections](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/digitisation/3-dimensional-collections/)
    - Including 3D and 2D object photography and VR tours
- [Data Capture](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/datacapture/) 
    - [Audio Visual Transcription](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/datacapture/audio-transcription/)
    - Make audio searchable by transcribing content to text
    - [Handwritten Text Recognition](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/datacapture/handwritten-text-recognition-htr/)
    - Make handwritten text searchable through automatic text recognition
    - [Optical Character Recognition](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/ocr-scanning-service/)
    - Make typed text searchable with accurate data capture
    - [Data Entry](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/datacapture/data-entry/)
    - Make ambiguous records fully searchable with data entry
    - [Handwritten Transcription](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/metadata-transcription-service/)
    - Make handwritten text searchable through transcription
- [Publishing](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/publishing/) 
    - [Digital Collections](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/archive-management-software/pastview/welcome-to-pastview)
    - Manage, publish and share digital collections online
    - [Digital Records](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/archive-management-software/chronicle-cemetery-management/)
    - Reimagine the digital management of cemetery records
    - [Virtual Tours](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/virtual-reality-tour/)
    - Bring internal spaces to life digitally with a VR Tour
- [Industry](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/industry/) 
    - [Academic](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/industry/academic/)
    - Futureproof education with digitally enabling online resources
    - [Bereavement Services](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/industry/bereavement/)
    - Counter operational costs with digital control and management
    - [Business and Corporate](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/industry/business-and-corporate/)
    - Protect brand value & discover the power of digital management
    - [Cultural Heritage](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/industry/cultural-heritage/)
    - Harness the value of collections with financial autonomy
    - [Public Sector](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/industry/public-sector/)
    - Combat damage and loss with robust digital duplicates
    - [Military](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/industry/military/)
    - Respectfully and globally mark significant figures and conflicts
- [About](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/about) 
    - [Our Vision & Mission](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/about-us#vision-mission)
    - Supporting collections to thrive in the digital landscape
    - [Our Values](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/about-us#values)
    - Integrity, Empathy and Truth – Our commitment to you
    - [Meet The Team](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/about-us#team)
    - Dedication with a personal touch – names and faces!
    - [Careers](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/recruitment/)
    - Passionate about culture and heritage? Join the team!
    - [TWA Digitisation Grant History](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/digitisation-funding-grant/grant-history/)
    - From our very first winners to our latest success stories
    - [Partners](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/partners)
    - Trusted organisations offering associated services
- [Our Work](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/our-work)
- [Blog](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/)
- [Contact](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/contact/)

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- [Digitisation](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/digitisation/) 
    - [Bound Volume Collections](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/digitisation/bound-volume-collections/)
    - Registers, guard books, journals, diaries and more
    - [Archive Collections](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/digitisation/archive-collections/)
    - From index cards, maps, posters and reports to letters
    - [Photograph Collections](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/digitisation/photograph-collections/)
    - All 35mm slides, glass plates, transparencies & photos
    - [Film Collections](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/digitisation/film-collections/)
    - Including aperture cards, microfilm and microfiche
    - [Audio Visual Collections](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/digitisation/audio-visual-collections/)
    - From Betamax, compact audio cassette and CD to VHS
    - [3-Dimensional Collections](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/digitisation/3-dimensional-collections/)
    - Including 3D and 2D object photography and VR tours
- [Data Capture](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/datacapture/) 
    - [Audio Visual Transcription](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/datacapture/audio-transcription/)
    - Make audio searchable by transcribing content to text
    - [Handwritten Text Recognition](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/datacapture/handwritten-text-recognition-htr/)
    - Make handwritten text searchable through automatic text recognition
    - [Optical Character Recognition](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/ocr-scanning-service/)
    - Make typed text searchable with accurate data capture
    - [Data Entry](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/datacapture/data-entry/)
    - Make ambiguous records fully searchable with data entry
    - [Handwritten Transcription](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/metadata-transcription-service/)
    - Make handwritten text searchable through transcription
- [Publishing](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/publishing/) 
    - [Digital Collections](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/archive-management-software/pastview/welcome-to-pastview)
    - Manage, publish and share digital collections online
    - [Digital Records](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/archive-management-software/chronicle-cemetery-management/)
    - Reimagine the digital management of cemetery records
    - [Virtual Tours](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/virtual-reality-tour/)
    - Bring internal spaces to life digitally with a VR Tour
- [Industry](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/industry/) 
    - [Academic](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/industry/academic/)
    - Futureproof education with digitally enabling online resources
    - [Bereavement Services](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/industry/bereavement/)
    - Counter operational costs with digital control and management
    - [Business and Corporate](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/industry/business-and-corporate/)
    - Protect brand value & discover the power of digital management
    - [Cultural Heritage](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/industry/cultural-heritage/)
    - Harness the value of collections with financial autonomy
    - [Public Sector](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/industry/public-sector/)
    - Combat damage and loss with robust digital duplicates
    - [Military](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/industry/military/)
    - Respectfully and globally mark significant figures and conflicts
- [About](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/about) 
    - [Our Vision & Mission](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/about-us#vision-mission)
    - Supporting collections to thrive in the digital landscape
    - [Our Values](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/about-us#values)
    - Integrity, Empathy and Truth – Our commitment to you
    - [Meet The Team](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/about-us#team)
    - Dedication with a personal touch – names and faces!
    - [Careers](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/recruitment/)
    - Passionate about culture and heritage? Join the team!
    - [TWA Digitisation Grant History](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/digitisation-funding-grant/grant-history/)
    - From our very first winners to our latest success stories
    - [Partners](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/partners)
    - Trusted organisations offering associated services
- [Our Work](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/our-work)
- [Blog](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/)
- [Contact](https://www.townswebarchiving.com/contact/)

## Where to get started

Are you planning your next digitisation project, or are you just after some inspiration? Well, you’re in the right place!

 

[Advice & Resources](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/digitisation-advice-and-resources) <https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/digitisation-advice-and-resources> 

<https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/tag/how-to-digitise>

<https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/tag/how-to-digitise>[How To Digitise Guides](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/how-to-digitise) <https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/how-to-digitise>

[Digitisation Tools](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/tag/digitisation-tool) <https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/tag/digitisation-tool>

[Customer Stories](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/tag/case-study) <https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/tag/events>

[TWA Digitisation Grant News](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/tag/twa-digitisation-grant) <https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/tag/twa-digitisation-grant>

[Digital Access & Discovery](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/pastview) <https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/pastview>

# Blog

## Marshall Parr

### Recent Posts

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## [Our most popular resources from 2023 and what’s to come in 2024!](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/2024/01/goodbye-2023-welcome-2024)

| January 3rd, 2024 |
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We're kicking off the year with a look back at our most popular resources and articles from 2022, plus a sneak peek at what's to come in 2023! Read on...

With over 150 years of unique heritage, HSBC's new History website will act as a single point of reference for employees and customers, facilitating access, research, exploration and discovery for the story of HSBC’s incredible journey.

[Read the Article](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/2024/01/goodbye-2023-welcome-2024)

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## [Handwritten Text-Recognition comes to PastView! (Preview)](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/2023/08/handwritten-text-recognition-comes-to-pastview)

| August 16th, 2023 |
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Discover how PastView is revolutionising digital collections with Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR). Unlock the potential of your archives with enhanced searching capabilities for your handwritten materials.

Watch our video on digitising glass plate negatives and see the beautiful results achieved in Signal Film and Media’s National Lottery Heritage funded project.

[Read the Article](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/2023/08/handwritten-text-recognition-comes-to-pastview)

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## [How to grow & engage your audience online - Our top 5!](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/2020/04/our-top-tips-5-for-growing-and-engaging-your-audience)

| April 22nd, 2020 |
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With many in the cultural heritage community moving online during this unusual time, we decided to collate our top 5 tips for how to grow and engage your audience

[Read the Article](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/2020/04/our-top-tips-5-for-growing-and-engaging-your-audience)

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## [Celebrating World Digital Preservation Day with a WEEK of announcing digital access](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/2018/11/celebrating-world-digital-preservation-day-with-a-week-of-announcing-digital-access)

| November 26th, 2018 |
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About World Digital Preservation Day We have decided to celebrate World Digital Preservation Day…

[Read the Article](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/2018/11/celebrating-world-digital-preservation-day-with-a-week-of-announcing-digital-access)

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## [Naomi Korn Associates and TownsWeb Archiving partner on digitisation, copyright and data protection compliance](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/2018/10/naomi-korn-associates-and-townsweb-archiving-partner-on-digitisation-copyright-and-data-protection-compliance)

| October 10th, 2018 |
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For those who are planning a digitisation project to ensure their material complies with copyright and data protection policies.

[Read the Article](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/2018/10/naomi-korn-associates-and-townsweb-archiving-partner-on-digitisation-copyright-and-data-protection-compliance)

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## [Preservica and TownsWeb Archiving partner on digital preservation](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/2018/08/preservica-and-townsweb-archiving-partner-on-digitisation-and-preservation)

| August 28th, 2018 |
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Digital preservation market-leaders Preservica and TownsWeb Archiving, digitisation and archiving specialist, have announced their new partnership.

[Read the Article](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/2018/08/preservica-and-townsweb-archiving-partner-on-digitisation-and-preservation)

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## [Our 3 Top Tips for Increasing the Reach of your Digital Archive](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/2018/08/increasing-the-reach-of-your-digital-archive)

| August 22nd, 2018 |
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Digital preservation market-leaders Preservica and TownsWeb Archiving, digitisation and archiving specialist, have announced their new partnership.

[Read the Article](https://blog.townswebarchiving.com/2018/08/increasing-the-reach-of-your-digital-archive)

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