How many photographs in your collection are still sitting without a descriptive record?
Digitum Archiviste IA assists archivists and heritage institutions in analyzing historical photographs — classification, dating, condition assessment, rights — and generates records compliant with ISAD(G) / RDDA, Dublin Core, VRA Core, and LIDO standards.
Archival description can no longer keep pace with collection volume
Four realities facing archival services and heritage institutions.
Photographic collections outpace processing capacity
Thousands of photographs often sit waiting for item-level description, simply because there isn’t time to apply professional standards to each one.
Description standards remain demanding
RDDA/RAD, ISAD(G), Dublin Core, VRA Core, LIDO: each standard imposes its own structure, fields, and vocabulary — specialized work even for an experienced archivist.
Digital provenance is becoming mandatory
Article 50 of the European AI Act, in effect since August 2026, requires labeling of AI-generated or AI-modified content; in Quebec, the LGGRI requires public bodies to maintain a governance registry of their generative AI use.
Condition is rarely documented systematically
Without a consistently applied framework, digitization and restoration priorities often rest on impressions rather than criteria that are comparable from one item to the next.
An analysis assistant, not a replacement for the archivist
Four pillars, built on recognized archival standards and systematic human validation.
Automated classification and analysis
Upload a photograph: likely photographic process, dating, geographic origin, composition, and condition are identified in seconds, each with a confidence level.
Records compliant with archival standards
Automatic generation of a seven-field record following RDDA/RAD — the Canadian standard used by BAnQ and Library and Archives Canada — with ready-to-integrate XMP, Dublin Core, VRA Core, and LIDO exports.
Always under archival control
Every proposal comes with a confidence percentage and remains editable in review mode. Results are preliminary suggestions, meant to be validated by an archivist before final integration.
Built-in AI governance registry
Every analysis is logged automatically: file, institution, tool used, digital source type. A registry exportable at any time, useful for meeting LGGRI requirements.
Built for two distinct realities
Whether you manage a small heritage collection or a public archival fonds, Digitum Archiviste IA adapts to your requirements.
Museums, historical societies, and archival centers
Older photographic collections, holdings awaiting processing, limited archival resources.
- Item-by-item or batch processing, up to 50 photographs at once
- Direct export to your document management tools (XMP, Dublin Core)
- Archive-ready PDF report for each item
Municipal, university, and government archival services
Organizations subject to description, preservation, and increasingly, AI governance obligations.
- Description compliant with the RDDA/RAD used by BAnQ and LAC
- Exportable AI governance registry, aligned with the LGGRI
- Standardized condition framework to prioritize interventions
Your images never pass through Digitum’s servers
Digitum Archiviste IA runs directly in your browser. To perform the analysis, each photograph is sent to an external artificial intelligence service using an access key that you obtain and hold yourself — never Digitum.
Your photographs and your access key
The tool runs in your browser; your access key for the AI service is stored locally on your machine and is never transmitted to Digitum.
- Digitum Conseils never receives, sees, or stores any photograph or generated metadata
- The AI governance registry stays stored locally, in your browser
- Only the information tied to your beta account (name, email, institution) is transmitted to us
Compliant by design
Digitum Conseils complies with Quebec’s Act to modernize legislative provisions respecting the protection of personal information for the account data we receive directly.
- Your photographs never pass through our servers
- This architecture deliberately limits the personal information we process
- Every analysis remains subject to human validation before final integration
A suite of image tools, from the field to the archive
Join the beta program
We’re recruiting a limited number of heritage institutions and archival services to help shape Digitum Archiviste IA ahead of its official launch.