A Database Services - Overview

Get ahead of the field: take your collections into the future with A Database.

The operational arm of A Database is dedicated to filling a critical market gap in the preservation of contemporary visual culture.

Our target is to ensure that the widest possible network of collections and artists can benefit from the technology and make their work visible.

The team is led by experts who have been instrumental in bringing the new standard to life. They have a wealth of experience over 10 years in the field of digital preservation.

A Database is the brainchild of the A Foundation, a foundation for the support and exhibition of contemporary art in Liverpool and London.

You, too, can now make use of this innovative technology to record, and preserve your collections to unprecedented standards.

The wide range of former clients includes:

• Tate Gallery
• The British Library
• Courtauld Institute of Art
• The British Cartoon Archive
• FACT (Foundation of Art and Creative Technologies)
• The Royal Society
• The Imperial War Museum
• British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC)
• ITN
• London College of Fashion
• House of Commons Library
• Parliamentary Archives
• New Contemporaries

A Database is there for you. Whatever you want to do with your collection, we are ready to do it with you and for you.

There is no other service of this kind currently available in the market.