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Making Historical Collections Readily Accessible

AI-supported metadata extraction & visual search for archives, museums and libraries

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Acting instead of reacting

The Backlog Keeps Growing

You and your team are dedicated and spend a lot of time cataloguing. Finding the exciting stories in your holdings or supporting users with their research often takes a back seat.

Every year brings metres of new physical materials and terabytes of digital content. Even with a committed team, it isn't realistic to index everything by hand. Without a different approach, the backlog will continue to grow faster than anyone can process.

The challenges

  • Our holdings are already far too large to ever be fully indexed.
  • Our collections are difficult to use, especially for the general public.
  • Although we invest a great deal of time and resources, we can typically only catalogue certain items in detail.
  • Our user support and researcher services take a long time even for simple inquiries.
  • Short-term measures, such as temporary funding, student helpers or working longer hours, may ease the workload for a moment but they do not change the trajectory.

Wishes

  • Our collections are easy to use and well indexed
  • We use our time for curatorial work, for discovering treasures and telling their stories.
  • Our content is accessible and searchable in a variety of ways
  • Our users find exciting content easily and independently and therefore use our collections better and more often
  • We use our experience and expertise for complex research and other important tasks


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Gain metadata

Automatically generate metadata from index cards, registers, finding aids or directly from the documents. In recent projects, archives processed tens of thousands of photographs and hundreds of hours of film within a few weeks, rather than months, making these collections searchable much sooner. You focus on your specialist work, while the AI takes on the repetitive extraction.

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Images, film and photos easy to use

Make your image, video, film and photo collections directly usable and accessible. If required, even completely without manual description or existing metadata.

 

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How We Make Your Collections Accessible and Usable

Gain clarity

  • Where do you want to go?
  • Where do you stand?
  • How do we get there?

Gain experience

  • Processing a sample set of materials
  • Utilization of the results
  • Assessment of quality
  • Concrete plan for the next steps

Increase usage and visibility

  • Making entire collections more easily accessible
  • Integration of the new tools and results into everyday working life
  • Concrete plan for the future

Modern tools for contemporary archives, libraries and museums

Focus on specialist work

Hand over the grunt work to the computer/AI.

AI-based data extraction

AI-supported data extraction: Traditional archival software stores data well but doesn't create it. With AI you can extract names, dates and locations automatically, leaving you to focus on quality assurance instead of manual typing.

Directly usable image and film collections

Digitized and born digital visual collections can be used directly without manual description.

AI tools in everyday life

The "myth" of AI becomes a practical, everyday tool used wherever it adds real value.

Independent and integrable

The tools can be used independently or integrated into existing processes and tools

Focused team

Trusted partnership: We work with archives, museums and libraries to develop sustainable solutions and adapt as needs evolve. Our success depends on yours.

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