The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome Pictoscope to its Supporter Program this week.
Based in Florida, USA, Pictoscope is a software company dedicated to enhancing digital discovery and accessibility of historical and library collections. Its flagship tool, BookView, uses AI driven metadata tagging and visual search capabilities to unlock visual content embedded within digitized books and archives. By providing integration with library catalogs and digital repositories, Pictoscope enables researchers, educators, and library patrons to explore wide collections of historical images, illustrations, and visual artifacts. Pictoscope’s mission is to improve engagement with open-access collections and support institutions in making their digital holdings more discoverable and accessible.
“Pictoscope is excited to become a DPC Supporter and actively contribute to advancing digital preservation practices and accessibility,” explains Matthew Loving, CEO of Pictoscope. “Through our AI driven visual discovery tool, BookView, we are able to enhance the discoverability and long-term engagement with digitized historical collections. We see strong alignment with DPC’s mission and are eager to collaborate on metadata enrichment, digital stewardship, and sustainable access strategies that support libraries, archives, and cultural institutions worldwide."
The DPC’s Supporter Program enables a structured, ongoing dialogue between members and solution providers, enabling vendors and solution providers to access and track the changing needs and challenges faced by DPC members.
Sarah Middleton, Chief Community Officer for the DPC, welcomed the news, saying: “Providing access to digital materials is an important part of the digital preservation lifecycle, so we are very pleased that Pictoscope has become a DPC Supporter and we look forward to exploring how their tools can benefit our members.”
The DPC Supporter Program offers a tiered fee structure designed to enable as many different types of organization to engage with the global DPC community through focused activities, as well as the DPC’s broader program of events. This offers a route to participation for sole traders and micro-agencies, those operating on a non-profit or charitable basis, companies who offer purely open-source solutions and new entrants into the digital preservation market, as well as larger agencies.
All funds raised by the DPC Supporter Program will be used in first instance to support grants to members for training and workforce development, to subsidize training workshops or to sponsor DPC membership for charities and not-for-profits.
The DPC enables its members to deliver resilient long-term access to digital content and services through advocacy, community engagement, workforce development, capacity-building, good practice and good governance.