Incubate new and unrealized revenue streams in your own photograph archives.

Our economy has us all thinking about finding revenue where we can…and many are finding new and unrealized revenue streams in their own photograph archives and libraries.   

The LAC Information & Asset Management group specializes in digitization of editorial and stock photographs. Our team of editors, digitization specialists, meta-taggers, indexers, catalogers and digital asset management specialists can assist with each area taking great care in evaluating your collection, creating a strategy for the digitization process and then preparing your collection for distribution, editorial collection or stock footage.

Digitizing

We perform all the heavy lifting associated with digitization of your photo archives. Regardless of format, our editorial specialists will select, organize and review your collection. Whether at your location or depending on the collection size, at one of our scanning facilities, we will carefully process your collection. Editorial and stock collections are scanned one level above industry and content partner standards to ensure you have the quality you need, avoiding the expense of   

Metadata, Indexing & Cataloging Specialists

Since 1986 our information management professionals have helped libraries and archives around the country organize, understand, develop and extract value from their collections. Making your collection searchable and accessible, means that your digitized material can be utilized internally or externally, available as needed.

Our skilled information professionals work quickly and accurately to enter the highest quality metadata to your collection. When needed, our professional staff does appropriate research to find missing data necessary to properly index and catalog your collection.

Consulting

Our editorial staff will help select the best of your collection.  With decades of experience in collection selection and development, we can help you realize the potential of your collection.

Revenue Sharing ..  our innovative approach

If your archive is one one of may with a collection with potential commercial value, LAC will consider performing digitization services at little or no upfront charge in exchange for a percentage of the sale of your newly digitized assets. If your budget to process your archive is slim but you feel your collection has monetary value we will work with you to evaluate your collection.

Handling & Scanning

We take the upmost care in working with your collection.  Our professionals are trained in proper handling, scanning and storage of your photographic material. We select the best possible method of digitization, ensuring your photographic content is well cared for from the moment we start working with your valuable assets.

Monetize-Distribution

Turn your long term cost center into a near term revenue center:

Making Your Photos Available

Once we have digitized, organized and meta-tagged your content you can make your content available either internally or externally, including distribution arrangements with many leading sellers of editorial and stock photos, including Getty Images, the number one editorial and stock footage company. We prepare your photographic content for Getty, so that it’s ready for purchase from their website.

Common Questions

Where Do You Do The Work?

Depending on the size of your collection, either at your location or ours.

Why Go Digital?

Develop unrealized revenue streams:

• Preserve your most valuable assets before they deteriorate beyond use. Your photographs and negatives are likely sitting in boxes or folders, and are not in acid-free archive quality storage boxes.  This means that each year that passes, they suffer significant degradation.
• Digitizing enables high-level search functionality for your content. Each time human hands touch photographic content to “look” for that perfect shot, the oils, acids and residue from our hands (lotion, dirt, soap, etc.) cause this valuable content to degrade further. In addition to preserving your content, you will also lower acquisition and/or production costs by reusing content, when appropriate.
• Scanning your own material can be expensive, and is not your core business…it is ours! We can scan, meta-tag and prepare your material much more efficiently than you can. Our experienced team of information professionals, editorial experts, digitization experts and researchers bring decades of experience.
• Monetize your collection via editorial and stock footage sites such as Getty Images.
• Free up expensive photographic storage facilities. Space is a premium, and in our modern economy, every dollar counts.

Why Choose LAC?

We are Digitization, Meta-data and Research specialists:

• No other company can help you get your content to market faster, with better results.
• Our editorial staff will help select photos, which have the best potential for sale.
• Experienced information professionals will digitize and then add the meta-data, preparing each piece to your content partner’s specifications.
• We can handle any size project, from small private collections to millions of assets.
• We can digitize your collection at one of our facilities or at your facility, depending on the size of the collection and workspace available.
• We offer multiple options for payment, from fully funded digitization services to low-cost or no cost (in exchange for varying levels of long-term revenue sharing), depending on the commercial value of your collection.

What do you get out of the process?

Digital Assets

• Photographic archival & preservation
• Meta-logging, indexing, prepping, and handling.
• We work with your systems. No need to purchase additional software or servers. We will work directly with your content provider.

Organization, Distribution & Monetization of Assets

• Assets now searchable, and therefore, more valuable.
• Ability to sell on editorial or stock footage websites.