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Cambridge, July 2010 – Cambridge Imaging Systems has completed a contract to supply the Imperial War Museum with advanced software, making its important film archive readily accessible to scholars and general public alike.

The film and video archive of the IWM is one of the oldest film archives in the world, with expanding collections extending to over 20,000 hours of film and videotape in a variety of formats. Previously, around one third of this material had on-line documentation but there was no on-line access to any moving images.

At the heart of the Imperial War Museum’s new system is the Imagen Media Control Centre (IMCC).  This manages the workflow of ingesting, decoding, transcoding and distributing digital images via the Museum’s user friendly website. Researchers and the general public can now search for archived material and view contemporary footage and still images relating to world conflict over the past century.

Tone Blake of Cambridge Imaging Systems said:
“We are privileged to have worked with some of the World’s great film archives and we are delighted to have been able to help the Imperial War Museum in its important work of making this very special collection accessible to a wider audience. ”

Media Contact: John Foster  +44 (0)1473 652195   mediamatters@mac.com

Editor’s note:
Cambridge Imaging Systems is one of the World’s leading exponents of advanced archive management and develops systems that can encode, transcode and retrieve stills and video from huge archives. Clients include the BBC, British Pathe and Ministry of Defence, along with universities and newsfilm management and distribution companies.