Updates about digitisation, metadata, software, AI and applications that are directly relevant to archives and heritage institutions.
2dA is expanding its heritage digitisation capabilities with a new V-shape scanner. A V-shaped book cradle, two high-quality camera systems and carefully controlled lighting bring together care for the original and detailed image capture.
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Place an archival record under the camera, recognise its text and generate a description. At ARCHIVISTICA in Hof, 2dA and MICROBOX presented their joint innovation: AI processing inside the scanner, without sending archival images to external data centres for that processing.
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There is more to this scanner than meets the eye. Ahead of ARCHIVISTICA 2026, 2dA and MICROBOX shared a first glimpse of their joint development. Its central principle: AI on board, with local data processing.
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An archival record becomes more meaningful when you can see where it belongs. In a new video, Mila shows how 2dA brings archives, places and measurements together in a working 3D environment under development.
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2dA has developed a new innovation together with MICROBOX. At ARCHIVISTICA 2026 in Hof, Germany, we will reveal what we have been working on. A short teaser offers a first glimpse.
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From an initial question to an inventory and a digital document: 2dA shares a first application of the platform our team is developing. In the video, Mila explores a virtual reading room built around archival sources.
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After 87 years, the mathematical question on which Michiel based his PhD received a new outcome.
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Practical training in material care, context, image quality and the professional knowledge behind careful archive digitisation.
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What the new Act changes and how selection, metadata, privacy, quality and digital delivery connect.
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Restorers Netherlands visited 2dA for an exchange on material care, trusted digitisation and sustainable digital access.
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A thought about digital control: keeping source, provenance, context and trust connected when archive data is used further.
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2dA strengthens the chain around archive digitisation, metadata, OCR/HTR, scanning on demand and local AI agents.
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2dA will show how digital archives can become easier to understand without replacing the source, provenance or original data.
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The first part, Selection and digitisation, has been completed: almost 52 metres of archive material became digitally accessible.
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Sometimes you encounter an object that immediately makes you feel: this is more than remarkable. This is history.
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The idea was to develop human-supporting technology that helps employees move further in their work.
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Archive services can now receive revenue directly from additional digital services within their own collections.
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Op 24 maart ontvingen we bij WerkBedrijf vertegenwoordigers van Cedris: voorzitter Mohamed el Mokaddem en directeur Esmé Rijs.
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At 2dA, we completed our first mass run for the automated description of 58,000 pages of death records for Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum.
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At 2dA, we continuously improve our processes. During this Brown Paper session, colleagues critically reviewed our workflow with one clear goal: to keep improving our services.
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We welcomed representatives of the Metamorfoze programme of the KB for a look behind the scenes in our restoration studio.
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2dA runs a powerful local AI environment in the office, securely under its own control and directly available for day-to-day work.
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