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Information Extraction & Knowledge Access

Extract valuable information from collection material, documentation, audio and video, and make it usable for research, management and public access. Information extraction and knowledge access make hidden knowledge easier to find, better structured and more usable.

Museums, archives and heritage organisations hold important knowledge in many different sources: collection descriptions, archive documents, conservation reports, interviews, oral history, audiovisual material and other documentation. These sources often contain valuable information about makers, places, periods, events, materials, techniques and relationships. Yet that knowledge is not always directly accessible. Information is often spread across systems, documents and file formats, or exists only in free text, audio or video. This is where information extraction and knowledge access help make hidden information visible and usable.

With Information Extraction & Knowledge Access, we help you automatically recognise, structure and make accessible relevant knowledge from a wide range of sources. This can include extracting names, locations, dates, events, object characteristics, collection numbers, terms and thematic relationships from text, image, audio and video.

This approach supports metadata enrichment, research, collection management and digital presentation. By systematically extracting information from sources and showing it in context, a richer knowledge layer emerges around objects, collections and archives.

Knowledge access is more than retrieving separate data points. It also means connecting information so that sources strengthen each other and collections can be placed in better context.

What it delivers

Hidden information becomes usable
Turn information from text, audio, video and documentation into structured data.

Richer knowledge layers
Connect people, places, objects, themes and events around the collection.

Better support for research and access
Make knowledge easier to search, navigate and reuse.

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Entity extraction

Automatically extract important information from collection material and metadata, such as makers, creation dates, provenance locations, historical events and collection numbers.

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Audio segmentation

Audio segmentation brings structure to sound material. By dividing audio into speakers, topics or fragments, relevant content becomes easier to find, describe and use for research, education and public access.

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Procedures

Make conservation and restoration procedures more accessible by automatically extracting steps from video and documentation.