Scran works in partnership with over 300 cultural institutions in Scotland and the rest of the UK who contribute material to the online service.
The online learning resource service hosts nearly 490,000 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media.
In its first five years, it engaged in a wide-ranging scheme of grant awards which allowed cultural organisations to digitise parts of their collections to be made available for educational purposes.
It developed an advanced licensing system, commended by many, in which the institution retained ownership of the digitised assets, but made these available under licence to Scran.
Scran utilises open source software and runs on a cluster server configuration with MySQL and PHP under Linux.