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Your image and film collections easily accessible and searchable

With Archipanion, you can easily make your images, photos, films and videos accessible to a broad audience. It's a simple process that works even for collections with no pre-existing metadata or cataloging.

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Leading innovative archives, museums and libraries already trust us

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More visibility for your institution

Visual content is a popular asset, especially with the general public who struggle to find what they are looking for in traditional approaches.

With Archipanion, you can also achieve a wide reach among the general public. In this way, society learns about the many treasures you are guarding.

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Directly from the digital copy to the search

Image and, even more so, film collections are very difficult to catalog. For large collections, this is not even realistically possible.

With Archipanion, you can make your holdings directly available for use, whether digitized or born-digital.

There is no longer any reason to neglect your visual treasures because indexing is not possible.

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Discover new connections

What if a photo in your collection resembles a painting from a completely different collection? Visual search uncovers unexpected connections and hidden stories that would never be visible in metadata alone. Inspire research and curation in a whole new way.

Use your expertise to do what AI can't: Establish context that cannot be derived from the images.

Examples from other institutions

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PTT Archive / Museum for Communication

40,000 pictures of post office chronicles and photographs from the museum are ready to be explored!

Explore the collection
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Bern City Archives

The city archive holds extensive photo collections such as the press photo archive of the daily newspaper "Der Bund" and the collection of Bund photographer Hansueli Trachsel (1951-2019). The collections of individual photos, the Bümpliz local archive and the municipal nursery, taken between 1860 and 2008 (approx. 8,000 images), have already been digitized.

Explore the collection
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Swiss Federal Archives

The 200 hours of Swiss film newsreels are easily available for use. A real treasure that documents Swiss history in the years 1940 - 1975.

Explore the collection
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Galt Museum & Archives

The "Lethbridge Herald" newspaper collection spans two decades of community life in the city of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. The photos range from notable events and cultural snapshots to everyday scenes from the 1970s and 1980s.

Explore the press photos

Our joint process in 3 phases

From the initial idea to daily use - we support you with a clear and proven approach. In this way, we ensure that you get exactly the results you need for your work.

Phase 1: Analysis & planning

Goal: We create a common understanding of your assets and goals in order to create a customized plan.

  • Goal definition: What do you want to achieve with your visual collections?

  • Collection analysis: We analyze your visual collections (e.g. photos, negatives, films, videos or digital image archives) and identify the materials best suited for the visual search.

  • Digitization check: If not yet digital, we clarify the best way to digitize - internally or with our partners.

     

Phase 2: Pilot & validation

Aim: We process a partial collection so that you can check the quality of the results and gain initial experience with your visual search.

  • Processing a partial collection with Archipanion's visual search.

  • Quality check: You check the results in the convenient interface and can test this internally with your team.

  • Joint evaluation: We check the results and create a concrete plan for the next steps

Phase 3: Scaling & integration

Goal: We use Archipanion on the selected collection

  • Processing: Your images and videos are processed and are then available for searching

  • Customization / integration: Your design is transferred to the search interface: fonts, colors and logos. Alternatively, you can also integrate the search into your existing platforms.

  • Public access: The search can now be opened to your users, or it can remain internal, just as it suits you.

  • Future plan: We define how the process can be used for future or continuous processing and accession.

Does that sound like the right path for you?

Let us find out in a non-binding discussion
whether and how we can apply this process to your collections.

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Instantly accessible images, photos, film and video

Images and videos are valuable assets and reach a broad public.

Opening the historical treasure chests

Give your users access to the exciting collections.

Visual similarity search

Find what belongs together: Search for images and videos: Motifs, colors, style, similarities - without manual description.

Reducing the backlog

The images and films, which for decades could not or only rarely be included due to the very complex cataloging process, can now be used.

Ready for digital born and digital copies

At last, an answer to the flood of digital visual assets you are constantly receiving.

Minimal effort

Making your assets usable with Archipanion requires very little time from your already busy employees.

Independent and integrable

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