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DAM for museums and archives Preserve and share your institution’s digital heritage

Gain control, ensure access, and safeguard your digital assets for the long term.

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Control and share your digital collections in one central hub

Manage complex digital collections

Bring all your images, videos, documents, and rich metadata together in a central hub for easy access and automation. As the backbone of your content ecosystem, Fotoware ensures that assets go exactly where they’re needed.

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Share your digital collections with the world - securely

Increase visibility and reach by showcasing curated assets in public, self-service collections. At the same time, ensure colleagues and partners have controlled, secure access to the content they need — boosting collaboration and protecting sensitive material.

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Let assets and data flow across your ecosystem

Keep assets and metadata perfectly in sync, with automatic updates ensuring every system always has the latest version. With seamless integrations, your content flows effortlessly across the tools you rely on — from your Collection Management System to creative apps and website CMS.

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"We went from applying metadata to one asset at a time to hundreds at once - reducing errors and saving countless hours of work ."

Sionan Guenther - Associate Registrar for Digital Resources
Rhode Island School of Design Museum

Key features for museums, libraries and archives

  • Ingestion and metadata tools

    Ingest large volumes of digital assets to your repository from wherever you are. Add and manage metadata easily at any time.

  • Powerful search and taxonomies

    Help users to find what they need using visual filters while ensuring quick and consistent tagging with taxonomies and controlled vocabularies.

  • Automated workflows

    Build custom workflows to automate metadata insertion, image processing, approval and publishing workflows.

  • Access control

    Use metadata and advanced user settings to control access to digital assets.

  • GDPR and copyright management

    Keep track of image rights and licenses, including GDPR consent. Revoke access and unpublish easily.

  • Structured metadata

    Build sophisticated data models that support your search strategies and consistent data capture.

Powerful content delivery and control at your fingertips

Built-in Master Data Management Consistent data across collections and your other systems

Avoid data silos and ensure accurate, consistent information across your collections. By separating metadata from the files themselves, Fotoware lets you define complex data structures and link them to your assets — so every person, location, or object name only exists once and is reused wherever needed.

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Extensive Rest API Seamless integrations with extensive Rest API

With the sophisticated and highly flexible API, you connect your DAM with the third parties of your choice — including Collection Management Systems like MuseumPlus and Axiell — to enrich your assets with data and ensure consistency across systems.

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Omnichannel delivery with CDN Reliable publishing to public-facing platforms

Ensure a single source of truth across all channels and platforms. Original content items are stored in Fotoware and made seamlessly available to other systems through the API. With CDN-powered integrations and customizable business rules, you automatically distribute to third-party platforms like brand portals, websites, and publishing tools — fast, consistent, and under control.

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Real results from museums & archives using Fotoware

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam - recorded webinar How this iconic European museum future-proofs its digital collections with Fotoware

The Rijksmuseum preserves, controls, and distributes thousands of digital content items using Fotoware solutions. Get practical insights from their Application Manager into how DAM powers their digital strategy.

  • check Seamless digital experiences for millions of visitors
  • check Controlled vocabularies across 1M+ objects
  • check Effortless distribution to public platforms
  • check Automated workflows that save time and reduce errors
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Talk to an expert: Find the right DAM setup for your collection

Need help managing, preserving, or sharing your digital assets? Our experts understand the unique needs of museums, archives, and galleries — and we’re here to help you build a solution that fits your workflows.

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