Get Your Archive
Online
Hosted, supported, and searchable — on open standards, without buying expensive software or managing servers. Managed by qualified archivists. UK GDPR compliant.
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Get Your Archive Online ★ Start here
No catalogue yet? We get your collection online and searchable for the first time — from Word documents, spreadsheets, or paper lists. No software licence. No IT department needed.
AtoM Hosting 🇬🇧
Access to Memory (AtoM) hosting optimised for speed and reliability. Fully managed infrastructure for your archival descriptions. The ideal upgrade from CALM.
ArchivesSpace 🇬🇧
Scalable hosting for ArchivesSpace. Expert migration and UK-compliant infrastructure for university and institutional archives.
eScriptorium 🇬🇧
Managed Handwritten Text Recognition for manuscript collections. The open-source alternative to Transkribus — no per-page fees.
Archivematica 🇬🇧
OAIS-compliant digital preservation systems. Ensure your digital assets remain accessible and verifiable for the long term.
Omeka 🇬🇧
Flexible web publishing for digital collections and online exhibitions. Ideal for outreach and public engagement.
Advanced Data Services 🇬🇧
Complex legacy data conversion, metadata engineering at scale, batch IIIF manifest generation, and semantic search over text collections. When the problem is harder than installing software.
Consulting
Expert guidance on digital strategy, CALM migration, standards compliance, and implementation of open-source archival systems.
Supported Specialist Software
Complementary Library Solutions
Supporting institutions that manage both archives and library collections. Consolidate your hosting with a single trusted partner.
Other Supported Library Systems
IIIF & Digital Media Solutions
Unlock the full potential of your digital collections with high-performance IIIF servers, viewers, and annotation tools.
Cantaloupe
High-performance, dynamic IIIF image server. Fast, robust, and standards-compliant.
Mirador
Advanced, multi-window image viewer that supports comparison of high-quality images side-by-side.
Universal Viewer
Community-built viewer for deep zoom images, books, audio, video, 3D, and PDFs.
Canopy
A static site generator that builds browsable and searchable sites directly from your IIIF collections.
Recogito
Semantic annotation platform for texts and images. Link your data to maps and gazetteers.
Tify
A slim, fast, and easy-to-use IIIF document viewer. Perfect for manuscripts and printed books.
Exhibit
Create beautiful, guided interactive exhibitions using your IIIF resources.
Annotot
A simple, lightweight IIIF annotation server for storing and retrieving W3C Web Annotations.
Clover IIIF
A performant and lightweight IIIF manifest viewer for audio and video resources.
SAS
Simple Annotation Server. Create, manage, and store IIIF annotations with ease.
Storiiies
A storytelling platform that lets you guide users through the details of your high-resolution images.
Avalon
Open source system for managing and providing access to large collections of digital audio and video.
Who We Serve
Religious & Diocesan Archives
Our home ground. We host active Catholic, Anglican, and other denominational archives across the British Isles. Proven, trusted, and built on ICA standards your archivist already uses.
County Record Offices & Council Archives
Budget-squeezed and CALM-heavy. We offer a fully hosted open-source alternative — no annual software licence, no in-house IT burden, full public catalogue included.
University Special Collections
AtoM and ArchivesSpace hosting for university archives and special collections. IIIF, eScriptorium for HTR, and EAD export for discovery portal integration.
Museums, Societies & Business Archives
Most smaller institutions have never had an online catalogue. We specialise in first-time deployments — from Word/PDF finding aids or paper lists to a fully searchable public catalogue.
Stop Paying Extra for the Basics
| Feature | Competitors | Archives Hosting UK |
|---|---|---|
| Public User Interface (PUI) | £££ / Add-on | Included |
| Full API Access | Restricted | Included |
| Unlimited Tech Support | Tiered / Hourly | Included |
| Off-site Backups | £££ / Extra | Included |
| UK GDPR Compliance | Variable | Included |
Archivists Hosting Archives
With a proven track record managing archival infrastructure across the British Isles, we bring deep collections expertise to every deployment.
We combine professional archival knowledge with open-source technical excellence to provide bespoke solutions for institutions of all sizes — from cathedral archives to national bodies.
🇬🇧 Active UK archival infrastructure. British Isles expertise.
Led by a Qualified Archivist
Archives Hosting UK is led by Matthew Bruton, a qualified archivist and technical consultant. We believe that hosting should be managed by people who understand the value of the records — not just the servers.
Our infrastructure underpins active archival systems across the British Isles, including catholicarchives.co.uk, catholicarchives.ie, and passionistarchives.co.uk (IIIF).
Connect With Us
Ready to modernise your archives? Let's discuss your needs.
📧 info@archiveshosting.co.uk