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Special Delivery: Centre ValBio’s Capture Station

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Author: Jess Borge

In May 2025 MAX’s Head of Infrastructure, Rhodri Parry, journeyed from MAX HQ at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, London, to deliver a digitisation capture station and training to Herbarium staff at Centre ValBio in southeastern Madagascar. Situated on the edge of the Ranomafana tropical rainforest, Centre ValBio [CVB] is an international research campus and […]

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Significant Milestones Reached at Kew

Published: 26/04/2023
Author: Frank Owen

Max Communications along with transcription partners SBL have achieved a significant milestone in their large-scale digitisation project for Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. The project involved digitising, transcribing, and recording metadata from over six and a half million “specimen sheets” from Kew’s archive. Max Communications has now digitised over one million items while SBL has transcribed […]

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Image of specimen sheet, featuring a specimen gathered by Charles Darwin in 1832. Darwin's handwriting and signature can be seen at the bottom left of the image.

Harrow Borough Photos Goes Live

Published: 25/11/2022
Author: Max News

Great news! The latest addition to our growing portfolio of Borough Photos websites – The London Borough of Harrow – has now gone live. The collection can be found at boroughphotos.org/harrow and features a fascinating array of photographs from around the borough dating back to the 1890s. It’s been a pleasure working with the team […]

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Historic Photos of Harrow

WSUP – Homelessness Support in Our Local Community

Published: 01/11/2022
Author: Max News

We’re delighted to be able to communicate our involvement with local charitable initiative, The Woolwich Service User’s Project (WSUP). WSUP has been in existence since 2010 and was set up to provide practical and emotional support to people experiencing homelessness, vulnerable housing, mental health issues and alcohol and/or drug addiction. The project is run by […]

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Max Pass ISO Audit With Flying Colours

Published: 27/10/2022
Author: Max News

Max Communications has passed the annual ISO9001, ISO27001 and ISO14001 audit for 2022. The company passed the audit with zero fails or instances of non-conformance. ISO9001, ISO27001 and ISO14001 are accreditation standards for Quality Management Systems, Information Security Management Systems and Environmental Management Systems respectively. ISO9001 looks at the running of an organisation and what […]

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Employment Opportunities on our Kew Gardens Project

Published: 20/09/2022
Author: Max News

September 2022 We are now recruiting digitisation staff to work on our project at Kew Gardens. Please visit our CV Submission page to submit your CV and covering letter.

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New Website for Queen Mary University of London Published

Published: 20/07/2022
Author: Stef Emiljanowicz

We’re very happy to announce the completion of a new WordPress application for Queen Mary University of London and their partners at The University of Warwick, The University of the West of England and UK Research and Innovation. buyingsocialjustice.org.uk examines the use of procurement to advance employment equality in the UK construction industry and we’re […]

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Max Putting Conservation at the Heart of the Digitisation Process

Published: 08/07/2022
Author: max-dev-admin

Digitising and then digitally preserving your collection is vital for ensuring it is preserved for posterity but the fact a collection is digitally preserved shouldn’t cause us to lose sight of how vital it is to physically conserve and preserve archival materials. Max Communications puts conservation and preservation at the heart of our digitisation work […]

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Old book conservation

Max Begin New High Volume Digitisation & Seismic Scans Project For Oil Industry Clients

Published: 01/04/2022
Author: Stef Emiljanowicz

Max are excited to have embarked on a new high volume digitisation project for two high profile multi-national clients in the oil industry. The project is being undertaken in our Edinburgh office and highlights Max’s ability to competitively tender for and carry out high volume digitisation of loose-leaf A3 and A4 documents, large format plans, […]

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Well Log Digitisation and Seismic Scans for the Oil industry

Digitisation of the 1921 Census of England and Wales Completed

Published: 25/11/2021
Author: Stef Emiljanowicz

We’re delighted to announce the completion of the digitisation of the 1921 Census of England and Wales. Max Communications was contracted by Find My Past to carry out image capture, processing and quality assurance for this project. To give an idea of the sheer size of this undertaking we’ve included some statistics below: The census […]

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1921 Census Digitised by Max Communications

ZSL’s DRYAD Website Goes Live

Published: 16/03/2022
Author: Stef Emiljanowicz

We’re delighted to announce that the Zoological Society London’s new DRYAD website is now live. The site can be viewed at https://zsl.maxarchiveservices.co.uk and features a WordPress framework with an embedded instance of AtoM for displaying ZSL’s archived materials. The site also features curated archival content, a news section and much else besides. It’s been a […]

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New Archiving Podcasts Added

Published: 03/02/2022
Author: Stef Emiljanowicz

We’re delighted to share two podcasts which have now published. The first is courtesy of Victoria Cranna of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who discusses the reality of managing a 20,000 plus items collection along with the challenges of managing a colonial legacy. The second podcast features Andrew Mussell of The Honourable […]

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Conservation Section Updated

Published: 24/01/2022
Author: Stef Emiljanowicz

As well as our digitisation work, Max Communications provides a comprehensive conservation service both pre-digitisation and for stand alone collections. We provide general and pre-digitisation collection and storage assessments and additionally carry out a broad range of conservation and remediation services for photographs, books, loose paper and other archival materials. Please take a look at […]

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Old book conservation

AtoM Installations for Explore York Archives and Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC)

Published: 16/09/2021
Author: Stef Emiljanowicz

We’re extremely pleased to announce the completion of two new, bespoke DRYAD / AtoM installations. The first installation, carried out for Explore York Archives and Libraries (EYLA), utilised Max’s ‘Crosswalker’ tool to migrate nearly 160,000 entries from EYLA’s existing CALM installation to AtoM and confirmed Crosswalker’s efficacy as a tried and tested CALM to AtoM […]

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SRUC Archive Website Screenshot

Video Demonstrations of Calm to AtoM Migration and Creation of AIPs and DIPs in AtoM

Published: 16/09/2021
Author: Stef Emiljanowicz

We are delighted to offer two new video tutorials exploring using Max’s Crosswalker tool to migrate from Calm to AtoM and the process of creating Archival Information Packages (AIPs) and Dissemination Information Packages (DIPs) in Archivematica and AtoM. The first is a demonstration of the process of migrating a Calm database to AtoM using Max’s […]

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Max Communications Podcasts Series

Published: 16/09/2021
Author: Stef Emiljanowicz

Max’s collection of podcasts continues to grow. Our core Max 2020 and Max 2021 podcasts series have been joined by a series of Digital Preservation podcasts. Our first two contributors are Abby Barletta, Assistant Archivist with the Royal Society of Arts and Rachel Howse Binnington, Deputy Archivist with Fortnum & Mason. To listen to the […]

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CALM to AtoM Migration in Practice

Published: 16/09/2021
Author: Stef Emiljanowicz

We are delighted to share details of two SOTERIA / DRYAD installations. The first, a bespoke AtoM and Archivematica installation for the Royal Society of Arts, showcases AtoM and Archivematica as a flexible, branded archive management and digital preservation system. The second, an AtoM / WordPress hybrid site created for London South Bank University, showcases […]

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