Standards and interoperability

Standards-aligned in, standards-based out.

Drafts map to ISAD(G) and Spectrum. Exports and live protocols carry them into the systems you already run.

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The descriptive field set of an Archivers.ai record: separate named fields for recipient, language, date references, transcript excerpt and title, each with its own guidance note and its own value
Under the record

Discrete fields, not free text.

A record is held as named, separately reviewed fields inside a fonds hierarchy. That is what makes a clean export possible.

  • Fonds, series, file and item levels
  • Reference codes on archival convention
  • Authority links to VIAF, FAST and Wikidata
See export examples
Description and packaging

The standards we build on.

Each one is maintained by somebody other than us. That is the point of them.

ISAD(G)

description · ICA

Fields map to the ISAD(G) elements across its seven areas, and hierarchical arrangement is kept from fonds down to item.

EAD3

xml · v1.1.1

On-demand EAD3 finding aids with hierarchical structure, controlled access terms, digital object links, and a maintenance history recording AI provenance.

Dublin Core

dcmi · xml

All fifteen elements plus Dublin Core Terms for provenance, spatial coverage and temporal range — the same record the harvesting endpoint serves.

Spectrum

museums · csv

Object records drafted against Spectrum-shaped fields and exported as profile-configured CSV for Axiell, Modes, Adlib and Mimsy.

BagIt

rfc 8493

Packages with SHA-256 manifests, a bag-info file carrying source organisation and provenance, and metadata sidecars beside the original files.

PREMIS

provenance

Each AI action and each human review is written as a PREMIS event with timestamp, agent and outcome, and travels with the export.

GET /api/public/{slug}/oai
      ?verb=ListRecords
      &metadataPrefix=ead
      &set=org:{slug}:fonds:{fonds}

verbs  Identify · ListMetadataFormats · ListSets
       ListIdentifiers · ListRecords · GetRecord
sets   org:{slug}
       org:{slug}:fonds:{fonds}
iiif   /iiif/manifests/{item}
       /iiif/collections/{fonds}
New

Harvestable, and viewable elsewhere.

The public portal serves a live OAI-PMH endpoint and IIIF manifests, so other systems can index and display published material.

  • All six verbs, hierarchical sets by fonds
  • Dublin Core, or an EAD2002-shaped record
  • IIIF manifests at item and collection level
  • Public portal built to a WCAG 2.2 AA working target
See the public portal

Aggregator listing is in progress. The endpoint is live, but external validator runs and Archives Hub registration are not complete — so treat national and European aggregator discovery as a capability we are working towards.

System compatibility

It feeds your systems, not replaces them.

Archivers.ai sits in front of the repository, CMS or preservation platform that holds the authoritative record.

AtoM and ArchivesSpace import CSV

Archivematica transfers with BagIt

Preservica BagIt with PREMIS

CALM CSV with former references

Catalogue to a standard, from the first box.

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