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Metadata, Terminology & Interoperability

Authority file linking

Link people, organisations, places and other entities to trusted authority sources and make identifiers and name variants more consistent.

Authority file linking

Collection data often contains multiple spellings or incomplete references to the same person, organisation or place. Linking records to authority sources creates greater consistency and interoperability.

From name variant to controlled identity

We identify potential matches with authority files and present identifiers, preferred names and variants as verifiable proposals.

Better links across collections

Authority identifiers help recognise and connect the same entity across records, systems and external knowledge sources.

Control and quality

AI does the preparatory work. Results remain verifiable and are configured around your sources, fields, terminology and quality requirements. Where relevant, the source, passage, image or recording behind a result remains visible. Your organisation decides what is corrected, approved and ultimately used.

A concrete first step

We prefer to start with a clearly defined test set. Together we define the required output, quality criteria and review flow, so you can see what works before scaling up.