How it works

From box to catalogue, step by step.

Four steps and one review gate — the same path for a single accession or a backlog of thousands.

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Step one of the Archivers.ai accession wizard, Describe Collection, with a free-text description box and optional panels for professional archival context, donor and provenance, completeness and scope, and collection assignment
Step one

Describe it once, then upload.

Give the accession a title, covering dates and whatever context you hold. Then drag the files in.

  • Donor, provenance, scope and condition notes
  • Your notes shape the draft, not the reverse
  • Documents, photographs, objects, audio, video
The Processing step in Archivers.ai showing an estimated processing time of about one minute and a choice between processing now and a cheaper overnight batch queue, above counters for pending, processing, completed and failed items
Step two

See the cost, then process.

The app prices the job before it runs. Processing continues in the background if you close the browser.

  • Credit cost shown before you commit
  • Overnight batch queue costs half as much
  • AI processing runs in EU data centres
Plans and credits
A drafted Archivers.ai record for a printed index page of Coroners’ Inquests 1732–1836, marked Unreviewed, with the drafted title, description and subject tags beside an Accept button and the scanned source page below
Step three

Read it against the source.

Each record opens beside the page it came from, marked unreviewed until somebody accepts it.

  • Edit any field, then accept the record
  • Fields with no direct evidence show where to look first
  • Sensitivity and personal data raised early
How we use AI
The Results and Export screen in Archivers.ai offering a PDF report, a BagIt package and a catalogue exports menu, above a summary showing five items processed and none failed
Step four

Export into your own systems.

Accepted records leave as open standards, carrying the provenance and the sign-off with them.

  • EAD3, BagIt with PREMIS, Dublin Core
  • AtoM, ArchivesSpace and Spectrum CSV
  • Your repository stays the system of record
All export formats
And then

The catalogue starts working.

Processing is the beginning of the value, not the end of the project.

Search

Full-text search across records, descriptions and transcripts.

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Public portal

Publish reviewed material for the public, on paid plans.

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One credit catalogues one photograph or object, one document page, one minute of video, or five minutes of audio. See plans and credits

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