PRESERVING HISTORY WITH OUR HERITAGE DIGITISATION SERVICES

Our leading technicians specialise in the digitisation of historical documents and media. With an impressive client base, creating digital preservation images including parchment maps, bound historical volumes, archival documents, artwork, photographs, glass plate negatives, we can digitise images in HQ Archival TIFF/RAW files, whilst also supporting JPEG, PSD or PDF files.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PARCHMENT, VELLUM AND PAPER

Parchment is a general term for animal skin which has been prepared for writing or printing.  For centuries parchment has been used, generally from  calf, goat or sheep skin.

The  term Vellum refers to a parchment made from calf skin.  Parchment refers generally to goat or sheep skin.  Traditionally used instead of paper for important documents such as religious text, public laws, indentures and land records.  

Digitising Your Archives at Oxford Duplication Centre

Digitising your originals can allow you to view and share your items without handling, which can cause damage, allowing you to keep your originals safe whilst using the digital preservation files .