Solution
Metadata, Terminology & Interoperability
Create more coherence, consistency and exchangeability in your collection data. A strong foundation in metadata, terminology and interoperability makes collections easier to search, better connected and better prepared for collaboration, reuse and digital access.
Good metadata is essential for managing, understanding and providing access to collections. At the same time, metadata rarely stands alone. The quality of collection data is also linked to the terminology used, the way concepts are connected and the extent to which systems and standards align. In practice, terms, descriptions and data structures have often grown historically. This can create differences in wording, field values and classification, both within one institution and across collections and systems.
With Metadata, Terminology & Interoperability, we help you structure collection data more strongly and make it future-proof. We support metadata enrichment, normalisation and linking, the development of terminology structures, and the connection of data to external sources and standards.
This may include improving descriptions, normalising field values, building a thesaurus, making relationships between concepts visible, or connecting collection data to external knowledge sources such as Wikidata, AAT or the NDE Term Network. We also support the application of Linked Open Data principles and standards such as IIIF.
What it delivers
More consistent metadata
Improve the quality and coherence of descriptions, terms and field values.
Better findability
Make objects, documents and images easier to search by content, subject and context.
A stronger terminology base
Work with thesauri, relationships and controlled vocabularies that structure your collection.
More interoperability
Make data easier to exchange between systems, platforms and heritage networks.
Control and quality
AI does the preparatory work. Results remain reviewable and are configured around your sources, fields, terminology and quality criteria. Where relevant, the source or passage remains traceable. Your organisation decides what is adjusted, approved and ultimately used.
Applications in this area
Explore concrete applications and choose the task that best fits your sources, data or knowledge question.
Application
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.
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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.
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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.
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Authority file linking
Link people, organisations, places and other entities to trusted authority sources and make identifiers and name variants more consistent.
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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.
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Concordances and mapping tables
Map terms, fields, codes and data structures in a controlled way for migration, harmonisation and exchange.
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