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Serco Artemis - realising the value of archives and rehabilitating prisoners
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Offenders look forward by preserving the past

Serco is committed to ensuring that offenders in our care have the opportunity to change their lives for the better and therefore reduce reoffending.

In the UK, nearly half of offenders are reconvicted within 12 months of release. At the same time, important video and paper-based archives are inaccessible and at risk through degradation.

Serco Artemis is an innovative new service that provides a solution to both issues, employing and skilling prisoners to carry out certain activities for digitisation and metadata annotation of audiovisual, photographic and paper-based archive material.

Artemis helps tackle archive holders' challenges by preserving valuable cultural heritage, improving public accessibility to archive content and optimising the commercial potential of material.

Prisoners work with digital copies of archive videos, images or documents, capturing key information - or 'metadata' - to make archive material easily searchable online.

The service brings the prison education and work regime together, making an impact on prisoner rehabilitation, skill development and digital literacy. In addition to developing IT and media related skills, offenders can learn from the archive material and gain confidence in decision making, team work and leadership.

For more information and to discuss how Serco Artemis could help your archive realise its full value, please contact Bruce Hellman (bruce.hellman@serco.com or 0771 819 4080) in Serco Consulting.

Last Updated: 26 July 2010