Our Mission

Our mission is to assist archivists and historians incorporate digital collections as part of their historic document preservation initiative.

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Founder Bruce D. Vallillee   1920 - 2002   Bruce started the archive division of our company (formerly Vallillee Digital) in 1998.   Bruce’s commitment to exposing our company capabilities to the archive community was driven by his personal passion to preserve the past for future generations and share with them the many changes he had personally seen and lived through growing up.  From the wealth of the 1920’s; firsthand experience of the great depression; six years service in WWII; forty years in the rapidly growing electronic market and thirteen years in the highly changing imaging technology market.  Bruce lived through a time of great change and wanted to ensure that he could assist in preserving this period of time and prior periods through the use of digital technology and the internet.  Bruce was a frequent speaker to school groups as a veteran and at different archive events.  He was a member of AAO, ACA, CCA, Friends of the Archives and other groups.    His work continues on today, as Perimeter Digital is committed to helping archivists and historians with digital preservation through use of the latest in imaging hardware, software and web solutions to ensure future generations have quality digital access to the past.

	Digital Preservation

Digital Preservation of historic documents has been moving to the forefront over the last number of years as digital technology advances have allowed for electronically sharing collections over the internet that previously could only be viewed at archives and libraries.  While digital preservation does not take the place of preserving the original physical material, it now is part of an overall preservation strategy.  Collections or sampling of collections can now be shared with archivists, historians, life learners, scholars and the general public around the globe.  Digital collections allow immediate access to anyone, anywhere with link to the internet to view, learn and study from a "virtual archive".  Digital collections on the web serve to attract people from anywhere to visit these archives or contact them to gain more knowledge from the holder of the materials that may previously not been accessible due to travel restrictions or were not known to exist. Perimeter Digital has the experience and expertise to safely handle and digitize your one-of-a-kind originals.  Our attention to detail, industry standards and commitment to quality, ensures that your online historic collections will become an industry leader in the digital preservation world. Some of our work may be seen at the following links to the City of Toronto Archive, York University, TD Canada Trust, McMaster University.   City of Toronto Archives – James Collection, Goads Atlas Collection, Larry Becker Postcard Collection, James   http://www.toronto.ca/archives/becker_collections/index.htm   York University Archives – Toronto Telegram Collection (Completed as Vallillee Digital)   http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/ArchivesSpecialCollections/FindingAids/Telegram/TelegramReport.htm TD Canada Trust - Collection of photographs of early Bank of Toronto branches across Canada http://www.td.com/150/timeline.jsp# McMaster University launches an exciting new website - Peace and War in the 20th Century.  Perimeter Digital part of the digitzation team. We are very pleased to have been selected to be part of the digitization team for this project.  Perimeter assisted with the scanning of approximately 500 World War I trench maps, 500 World War I aerial photographs and 500 posters depiciting both the world wars and the peace movement.  Please explore this great site at: http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca