Case Study: City of Reykjavik preserves architectural history with Fotoware Digital Asset Management

How Digital Asset Management Helps to Preserve the Architectural History of Reykjavik

The City of Reykjavik's blueprint archive, responsible for over 190,000 architectural drawings, faced significant challenges managing its vast physical collection. Storing, locating, and handling the heavy paper blueprints was time-consuming, physically demanding, and led to damaged or lost files. To solve this, they implemented a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system from vendor Fotoware.

By implementing Fotoware's DAM solution, the archive digitally preserved its entire collection, making blueprints easily searchable and accessible online. This eliminated the physical handling of drawings and the need for staff to manually retrieve files. The results include massive time savings for staff and greatly increased accessibility, as both city employees and the public can now look up and download drawings remotely.

City of Reykjavik