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Digitisation of Historic Environment Scotland's Archive Collections

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Historic Environment Scotland awarded a contract to Abergower Ltd, Arkhênum, Genus, Max Communications Ltd, Pearl Scan Solutions Ltd, TownsWeb Archiving Ltd, TRM Document Management Limited, and UK Archiving for an archive digitisation framework agreement.

The service covers digitisation of images from the HES collections, including unmounted and mounted photographic prints, prints in albums, glass plate and acetate negatives, rolled and flat drawings, bound volumes, loose papers, 35mm slides, microfiche, and videos/AV, to enable access to nationally significant materials.

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