Innovative Archives

Intelligence for living archives.

A practice and lab for AI-powered digitization, description, and discovery — built on two decades of archival work.

Services

What we do.

Seven practices that turn physical collections into discoverable records.

Digitization

High-quality capture of physical documents, maps, photographs, and bound volumes — calibrated for long-term access.

AI-powered metadata

Rich, standards-aligned descriptive metadata generated with AI and reviewed by archivists.

OCR & HTR

Printed and handwritten text made searchable — including historical Arabic, Persian, and early-modern scripts.

Audio transcription

Time-coded transcripts for oral histories, interviews, and recorded lectures.

Video transcription

Scene-level analysis and time-coded transcripts for film, broadcast, and institutional video.

Flexible output formats

Export to MARC, Dublin Core, EAD, PBCore, and custom schemas for your discovery system.

Digital preservation

Long-term access strategies: fixity checks, format migration, and OAIS-aligned workflows.

Approach

How we work.

Four principles that shape every engagement.

Archivist-led AI

We build tools the way archivists describe records: error-tolerant, revisable, and traceable to source.

Partnership, not vendorship

Each project is a collaboration. Your staff stay close to every decision, and your institution keeps the data.

Standards by default

DACS, Dublin Core, EAD, PBCore — we work in the schemas your catalog already speaks.

Long-term access

Preservation is the point. Every workflow is designed for records to survive the tools that processed them.

Get in touch

Ready to make your archive discoverable?

Tell us about your collection. We reply within two business days.