Archively and IT Comrade
Archively is an AI-assisted archive platform. IT Comrade brings Archively to organizations in the United States. We help organizations evaluate it, plan for it, prepare their records for it and support their staff once it is in use.
How Archively works
Archively keeps a digital archive in one place, from cataloging and description to publishing. Its AI proposes metadata and transcripts. Staff review each one, correct it and approve it before anything becomes part of the record or goes public.
AI can draft the first pass of a description, but an archive can't let software publish unchecked, so Archively leaves the final say with people.
What IT Comrade does
- Evaluation
- We help you test Archively on a sample of your own collection, so your team judges it on real material.
- Planning and budgets
- We help you scope the work and plan for it, including the technical questions a funder or committee will ask.
- Moving your records
- We help you map and clean the records in your current catalog or spreadsheets so they are ready to move into Archively, and we can connect Archively to the other systems you run.
- Training
- We help train the staff and volunteers who will catalog, review and publish.
- Support in the US
- You have a point of contact in the United States for questions, changes and problems.
- Custom work
- The reports, connections to your other systems and small tools your organization needs around Archively, built and supported by IT Comrade.
Archively, or a custom build?
When a ready platform fits
You want AI-assisted cataloging, review and a public archive without building software, and your museum, archive or foundation works the way most collecting institutions do.
When your needs are unusual
Your data model, workflows or connections to other systems are unusual, or the archive has to live inside systems you already run. See collections management systems and digital archives.
Why IT Comrade
We have built archive systems since 2010. Since 2012 we have built and supported the collections management system of the Blavatnik Archive Foundation and the software behind its public websites, so we know how catalogs, metadata, image viewing and search fit together, and what it takes to keep them running.
Considering Archively for your collection?
Tell us about your collection and what you're trying to do. The first step is a short call. If Archively looks like a fit, the next is an evaluation on a sample of your own records. If something else would serve you better, we'll say so.