Dear Colleagues,

 

At Oxfordshire History Centre, we are looking for potential suppliers to provide web hosting of digital heritage content. We currently use a very localised and home-made system, where much of our digital content is made accessible to our public PCs from a server here at Oxfordshire History Centre, but the County Council no longer wants to store data itself, but rather to shift everything to web-based delivery, where a commercial supplier hosts digital content for us.

 

So, aside from Find My Past and Ancestry, what suppliers do you use to host your digital content for web-based public access? Is there anything you can tell us about your experience by way of costs, quality of contract, and type of technology used?

 

Many thanks,

Mark Priddey

 

History Centre Manager (Archives)
Oxfordshire History Centre

St Luke's Church

Cowley, Oxford OX4 2HT
tel. 01865 398200
www.oxfordshire.gov.uk

 

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