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Archives and holdings

Make historical holdings discoverable without rewriting their origin.

Make historical holdings discoverable without rewriting their origin.

Historical stores and exports gain proper source and acquisition context, keep their originals, and yield canonical records that can be improved over time.

Historical stores and exports gain proper source and acquisition context, keep their originals, and yield canonical records that can be improved over time.

Audience

Teams responsible for long-held material that predates current tooling.

Source families

Historical holdings, Databases and exports, Files and archives

The workflow

Source to searchable, step by step.

Source to searchable, step by step.

01

Input

A historical store, a set of legacy exports, or both, often with incomplete documentation about how they were produced.

02

Acquisition and preservation

NERVE creates explicit source and acquisition context for material that arrived without it, then preserves the originals. What is unknown is recorded as unknown rather than filled with a plausible default.

03

Transformation

Common canonical records are derived where the structure supports it. GenericRecord carries the structure faithfully where no specialised family genuinely fits.

04

Discovery and retrieval

A corpus inventory shows what is held, what has been mapped and what is still identified but unprocessed, so onboarding progress is visible rather than assumed.

05

Governance

Handling rules are applied at the dataset level as material is onboarded, which is frequently the first time a consistent rule has been attached to these holdings.

When it goes wrong

Failure is reported, not absorbed.

Failure is reported, not absorbed.

Failure variant

An unknown format is encountered. It is identified, retained and reported under policy rather than silently discarded, and remains eligible for a later processing campaign.

What this does not claim

Derived records are a projection of the original. The original stays authoritative, and improving extraction never changes what was accepted.

Evaluation measures

Measure these on your own material.

Measure these on your own material.

Bring an approved sample and we will plan the run around these measures. The numbers belong to your environment, so they are established with you rather than quoted in advance.

Bring an approved sample and we will plan the run around these measures. The numbers belong to your environment, so they are established with you rather than quoted in advance.

Corpus inventory completeness

Fidelity of derived records against originals

Extension preservation for unmapped fields

Progressive reprocessing coverage

Storage overhead against retained volume

Next step

See this workflow against your own holdings.

See this workflow against your own holdings.

An evaluation runs NERVE against a representative sample of your own sources, so you can measure acquisition, normalisation and retrieval behaviour on material you already understand.

An evaluation runs NERVE against a representative sample of your own sources, so you can measure acquisition, normalisation and retrieval behaviour on material you already understand.

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