Digital Transformation Services
Digital History Canada offers several services to help your museum, archive, historical society, or community group showcase your collections online and build your web presence. Each of our services embody the following principles:
- For developers, hosting a website is cheaper today than it has ever been, so those savings should be passed along to organizations.
- We will only sell you what you need. Additional storage can always be purchased if and when it is needed.
- Data sovereignty is our default. If you wish to migrate away from a website hosted by us, we commit to sending you your data in a useable form (e.g. a spreadsheet) within one week (and likely sooner).
Collections Management System Setup and Managed Hosting
At Digital History Canada, we know Linux, so we can host open source archival software. We can set up, host, and maintain instances of Omeka, Access to Memory, Tainacan, and most other open source collections management systems. If you are interested in having your own instance of one of these state-of-the-art collections management systems, do not hesitate to email digitalhistorycanada@gmail.com for more information and a no-obligation quote.
Digital History Canada also offers competitively priced WordPress hosting. If you are interested in setting up a WordPress site for your organization, or migrating your WordPress site to one of our servers to reduce your hosting fees, feel free to send us an email.
For a limited time, all new web hosting plans, including WordPress, come with a free 1000 item Local History Atlas plan (valued at $35 per month), making it easier and even more affordable to share your collection with the public.
Automated Collection Management Systems Migration
We can help save you time and money by migrating your collections data from expensive, obsolete, and/or restrictive collections management systems to cheaper and more feature-rich open source alternatives. During your migration, you will also be provided with a spreadsheet containing all of your collection information, ensuring that you always have a backup of your valuable collection data. To find out how Digital History Canada can help you migrate your collection data between collection management systems, send us an email at digitalhistorycanada@gmail.com.
Custom Application Development
At Digital History Canada, we specialize in developing modern, performant, and useful desktop and web applications using both Python and JavaScript. In the past, we have developed desktop-based location databases (to help clients find files or items across their facilities), historical web maps, digital exhibits, and even web-based augmented reality applications! If you have an idea that you would like to bring to life, email us at digitalhistorycanada@gmail.com to inquire about our cost-effective custom app development.