Standards & Interoperability
Archivers.ai generates draft metadata aligned to established archival, museum, and digital preservation standards, and exports in the formats your downstream systems already use. We don’t ask you to migrate off your repository or CMS — we sit in front of it.
Who needs this?
ISAD(G), EAD3, and multi-level description. The standards your professional practice is built on.
For archivists →SPECTRUM-aligned draft records, object-level cataloguing, and CMS-ready CSVs for Axiell, Modes, Adlib, Mimsy.
For museums →BagIt with PREMIS provenance, Archivematica transfer metadata, and Preservica-compatible packaging.
Institutional onboarding →EAD3 and BagIt outputs designed to support NLHF-style digitisation workflows and reporting.
Heritage funding →The data flow
Archivers.ai holds a canonical internal model of each record during processing and review. Export profiles project that canonical record into the shape your downstream system needs — without losing provenance, confidence, or the archivist’s sign-off.
Documents, images, audio, video — from in-house capture or a digitisation vendor.
ISAD(G)- and SPECTRUM-aligned internal model with per-field confidence and provenance.
EAD3, BagIt + PREMIS, Dublin Core, AtoM CSV, ArchivesSpace CSV, Archivematica transfers.
AtoM, ArchivesSpace, Axiell, Modes, Adlib, Mimsy, Preservica, Archivematica.
Archival Description
General International Standard Archival Description
The Archiver's metadata fields map to ISAD(G)'s 26 elements of description across its seven areas: identity, context, content and structure, conditions of access, allied materials, notes, and description control. Hierarchical arrangement (fonds, series, file, item) is preserved throughout.
Encoded Archival Description, Version 3
The Archiver exports valid EAD3 XML finding aids with hierarchical <dsc> structure, controlled access terms, digital object links, and maintenance history recording AI provenance. EAD3 Version 1.1.1 is the current standard.
See EAD3 export example →Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
Item-level Dublin Core XML exports include all 15 core elements plus Dublin Core Terms extensions for provenance, spatial coverage, and temporal range. Suitable for OAI-PMH harvesting and cross-domain interoperability.
See Dublin Core export example →Digital Preservation
RFC 8493 — File Packaging Format
BagIt packages include SHA-256 hash manifests for payload integrity verification, bag-info.txt with source organisation and provenance metadata, and a data directory containing original files alongside metadata sidecar files.
See BagIt export example →Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies
Every AI action and archivist review is recorded as a PREMIS event with timestamps, agent identifiers, and outcome information. This creates a complete provenance chain from initial upload through AI processing to human review and export.
See PREMIS provenance example →Multi-level Description
The Archiver supports full hierarchical arrangement: fonds, sub-fonds, series, sub-series, file, and item levels. Reference codes follow archival conventions and can be auto-generated, manually assigned, or imported from CSV.
System Compatibility
The Archiver is designed to accelerate cataloguing and produce standards-ready outputs that plug into your existing system — not replace it.
Access to Memory
Export CSV files formatted for direct import into AtoM, preserving hierarchical relationships, ISAD(G) fields, access conditions, and creator/provenance information. Supports AtoM's standard CSV import template.
See AtoM CSV example →Archives Information Management
Export CSV files mapped to ArchivesSpace's resource and archival object schema. Fields include component IDs, hierarchical levels, date expressions, extents, scope notes, and access restrictions.
See ArchivesSpace CSV example →Digital Preservation System
Export BagIt packages with transfer metadata CSV files compatible with Archivematica's ingest workflow. File paths match the BagIt data directory structure and metadata columns use Dublin Core element names.
See Archivematica export example →Works with your existing systems
Archivers.ai sits in front of your repository, CMS, or preservation system and exports into the systems you already use: AtoM, ArchivesSpace, Axiell, Modes, Adlib, Mimsy, Preservica, and Archivematica. It is not a system of record and does not ask you to migrate off the one you already depend on.
Trust & Provenance
Every AI-assisted field includes a confidence score and reasoning. Every archivist edit is logged. Provenance for AI-assisted fields — model family, timestamp, and review state — is recorded in PREMIS events and travels with your exports.