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When it comes to AI adoption, have you ever wondered how your organization compares to others across the archives and heritage sector?

In this webinar, HAI and PastView come together to explore the full journey from archival strategy and collections assessment through to digitization, metadata, AI, and digital access.

We’ll share key findings from HAI’s recent AI Signature Research Report, explore whether Human-Guided AI offers a more responsible and effective approach, and look at what organizations should consider before introducing AI into their collections.

You’ll also see how organizations are transforming digitized collections into searchable, discoverable, and engaging digital experiences.

HAI helps you build the strategy and foundation. PastView helps you bring the collection to life. Together, we help turn digitization into discovery.

What You'll Learn

During this 45-minute session, we’ll explore:

• How to determine whether your collections are ready for AI and digital access.
• What HAI’s research tells us about AI adoption across archives and heritage organizations.
• Why strong archival organization and metadata remain critical in an AI environment.
• How Human-Guided AI can help institutions balance innovation with professional oversight.
• How technology can activate digitized collections and create richer opportunities for discovery.
• What an end-to-end journey from archival assessment through to digital discovery can look like.

Building the Right Foundation with HAI

Successful digital access starts long before technology is introduced. HAI works with organizations to understand their collections, establish priorities, and develop the archival foundations needed for sustainable digitization, preservation, and discovery.

Collections Assessment & Archival Strategy
Understand what you have and develop a practical roadmap for preservation, digitization, and access.

Digitization & Digital Preservation
Establish sustainable workflows that prepare collections for digitization and support their long-term preservation and accessibility.

Metadata & Archival Processing
Organize and describe collections so that people, search technologies, and AI tools have a strong foundation to work from.

Human-Guided AI Strategy
Identify appropriate AI use cases while maintaining professional oversight, accuracy, and trust.

Bringing Collections to Life with PastView

Once the right archival foundations are in place, PastView provides the technology to help organizations make digitized collections more searchable, discoverable, and engaging.

Using a combination of AI, machine learning, and specialist discovery tools, PastView can help surface more value from digitized material. This includes technologies such as OCR and HTR for text recognition, transcription for audio-visual collections, facial and image recognition, and immersive tools that give audiences new ways to explore books, objects, photographs, and other digital content.

Together, these tools help move collections beyond simple digitization, creating richer opportunities for discovery, access, and engagement.

Ask Me Anything

You’ll have direct access to archival, digital transformation, and technology experts from both HAI and PastView.

Whether you’re wondering where to start with your collection, what to digitize first, how to improve your metadata, how to approach AI responsibly, or what technology is right for your organization, this is your opportunity to ask.

You can also ask about digital preservation and access strategies, archival surveys, metadata creation, PastView implementation, costs, security, technical infrastructure, and anything else relating to your digital collections journey.

Not Sure Where to Start?

HAI’s archivists and digital transformation experts can assess your collections, identify priorities, develop a digitization and preservation strategy, and help build the foundation for successful digital access and AI initiatives.

PastView provides the technology to take that foundation further, helping organizations make their collections more searchable, discoverable, and engaging for the audiences they want to reach.

From archival strategy to digital discovery, HAI and PastView can help you move your collections forward.

Our Presenters

Paul Sugden (CEO), Casper Smithson (COO), Mal Langbridge (CTO), Megan O'Hern-Crook (Director of Archives and Information Services).

Reserve Your Seat

Register below and secure your seat for our upcoming 45 minute webinar on 24th September, 11am ET (4pm BST).

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