Partnering With Iowa Museums to Provide FREE Digital Acess to Local History

Advantage Archives is a Proud Sponsor of The 2024 IMA Conference!

Advantage is honored to be the conference snack sponsor for the Iowa Museum Association Conference this year, a partnership that we believe will greatly enhance the conference experience for all attendees. 

Advantage Archives is proud to partner with and support the Iowa Museum Association and all that it stands for. We strongly believe in IMA's message and are proud to partner with many of its museums to provide their patrons with free digital access to local history.

Do you want to speak with us or schedule a one-on-one time to talk at this year's conference? Reach out to Brady@AdvantageArchives.com so we can talk and learn more about how we can partner with your museum provide access to its important history.

Search

The Community History Archives use OCR technology to make your documents fully searchable. Save time finding people, places, events and more. With the archive containing only YOUR content, results will be relevant and personal to your community.

Unlock

The Community History Archives are freely hosted on our servers. Once the project is funded there are no recurring costs. Own your content and let us be the custodian of it. This allows your community to view your local history for free, from ANYWHERE.

Browse

Browse your archive by Title, Day, Month, Year. Get the exact results you are looking for by browsing specific documents, and narrow down by date to find exactly what you are looking for.

How Does It Work?

Schedule A Time To Talk

Speak with one of our partnership managers who will work with you to determine the best solution for you and your community. Our partnership managers will take the time to learn your specific needs and come up with a solution that will work best for you and your budget.



Send Us Your Materials

Let us get to work! In most cases, we will provide shipping labels, and all you have to do is back up your materials and send them our way. Once the materials are received they will be scanned, and returned to you.





From Microfilm, or Straight to Digital

Advantage can capture images from Microfilm, or from the source document (and more). We have a high resolution full color overhead camera that captures your historical content as accurately as possible. Once captured we will index and OCR your items, and then upload them to your own Archive which is fully customizable and free to access.

Quality Check & Demo

Once digitized, your new archive will go through our quality process. This ensures your history is represented in the most clear and best manner possible. Once this has cleared our quality check, your partnership manager will schedule a time to walk you through your archives and its features.

Spread The Word

Tell your community about its new resource! We've found the main key to driving engagement is making the community aware of this wool. Once we upload it, it's free to your community-- Forever. We truly believes that you should own your history, that's why we take on the costs of hosting and storage.

Add More Content!

The Community History Archives go beyond newspapers. The archive can house a large variety of documents including yearbooks, bound volumes, directories, city minutes, and much more! We even have an archive with recipes on it! Get creative and create your community its own unique archive.

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