Make hidden stories visible
Increase the value of your collection by making the stories behind it accessible
The better documents, audio and video are described and enriched, the more value they gain for research, education and public programmes. With the right use of AI, you can make collection material searchable faster, easier to find and more relevant for a wide range of audiences.
Datamachine offers a broad set of AI solutions.
Datamachine AI Knowledge Platform
AI Multimodal Knowledge Platform
Make existing knowledge actively usable The platform uses existing data as its basis: images and photo collections; documents, scans and PDFs; metadata and descriptions; thesauri and keyword lists; collection records; rights and usage information; additional documentation. This information is not only stored, but actively used to find new insights, enrich metadata and make collections more accessible.
Document Processing & Archive Management
Transcription
Convert text, audio and video material into searchable text and make spoken information more accessible for research, management and public access.
Document Processing & Archive Management
Summarising
Make extensive reports, minutes and archive files accessible faster with clear, structured summaries. Important information becomes easier to find and more usable for research, management and decision-making.
Visual Analysis & Collection Research
Visual Search
In museum and heritage collections, the image itself often plays a central role. Yet visual properties such as form, colour, composition, technique or repetition are not always fully captured in metadata or descriptions. As a result, important relationships between objects, images and subcollections can remain hidden.
Document Processing & Archive Management
PDF comparison
Compare different versions of PDF documents and make changes visible quickly. This gives you a clearer view of adjustments, additions and differences in text, structure and content.
Document Processing & Archive Management
Processing
Process large volumes of documentation around acquisitions, donations, loans and provenance research faster and in a more structured way. Relevant information becomes more accessible and complex file flows become easier to manage.
Document Processing & Archive Management
Translation
Translate exhibition texts, collection descriptions and archive documents while preserving art-historical context and specialist terminology. This makes content more accessible for international research, collaboration and public access.
Visual Analysis & Collection Research
Video segmentation
Video segmentation makes long or complex video material more accessible and usable. By dividing recordings into meaningful segments, video becomes clearer, easier to search and easier to use for research, access and public engagement.
Visual Analysis & Collection Research
Image analysis
Image analysis makes visual collection material more accessible, more richly described and easier to search. By automatically analysing images for content, characteristics and patterns, an additional layer of insight emerges to support research, access and public use.
Visual Analysis & Collection Research
Matching
Detect duplicate images and connect fragments with complete objects. This improves the coherence, recognisability and usability of visual collection material.
Visual Analysis & Collection Research
Associations
Discover thematic and associative relationships between objects based on visual and contextual meaning. This creates new access points for collection research, curation and digital access.
Visual Analysis & Collection Research
Grouping
Group related objects, images or documents based on content. This creates more overview in your collection and makes material more useful for management, research and digital presentation.
Information Extraction & Knowledge Access
Entity extraction
Automatically extract important information from collection material and metadata, such as makers, creation dates, provenance locations, historical events and collection numbers.
Information Extraction & Knowledge Access
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.
Information Extraction & Knowledge Access
Procedures
Make conservation and restoration procedures more accessible by automatically extracting steps from video and documentation.
Collection Registration & Quality Control
Validation
Identify missing, inconsistent or incomplete provenance information and mark it for human review. This improves the quality and reliability of provenance data in your collection.
Collection Registration & Quality Control
Normalisation
Clean up inconsistent field values and bring more unity to your collection data. Registrations become more consistent, easier to search and more useful for management, research and access.
Collection Registration & Quality Control
Deduplication
Detect duplicate object registrations and bring fragmented information together. This improves the quality, coherence and reliability of your collection data.
Collection Registration & Quality Control
Migration
Support data migration by aligning fields and structures between legacy collection systems and new Collection Management Systems. The transition becomes more careful, consistent and controlled.
Metadata, Terminology & Interoperability
Enrichment
Automatically enrich collection and archive data with relevant metadata based on the content of objects, documents, audio and video. Collections become easier to search, more consistently described and more useful for management, research and public access.
Metadata, Terminology & Interoperability
Thesaurus
We help museums, archives and heritage organisations develop a full, modularly expandable thesaurus. This creates a sustainable terminology foundation that makes collections more accessible, reveals relationships and can be shared more broadly through the NDE Term Network.
Metadata, Terminology & Interoperability
Relationships
Create more coherence in your collection by making broader, narrower and related terms visible. This improves collection structures, enriches metadata and supports consistent exhibition narratives.
Metadata, Terminology & Interoperability
Standards
We help connect collection data to external sources such as Wikidata, AAT and the Term Network. Objects become easier to find, better connected and more searchable across collections. Linked Open Data and standards such as IIIF create a collection that is more richly described and better aligned with broader heritage information networks.