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    Make your archive searchable again.

    Decades of video, audio, and text — minimally catalogued, buried in legacy systems, invisible to the teams who need it. Fluree’s AI catalogues your entire archive against your controlled vocabulary at scale: 100,000+ assets tagged in 24 hours. Every asset findable, every tag governed, every rights status attached.

    What Is Archival & Cataloguing

    AI that tags like your best archivist — at the speed of your entire library.

    Your archive holds decades of premium content — news footage, documentaries, interviews, raw b-roll, audio recordings, photographs. Most of it was catalogued with outdated vocabulary, minimal metadata, or not catalogued at all. You own it. You can’t find it.

    Generic cloud AI (Rekognition, Cloud Video AI) labels content fast — but the tags are inconsistent and don’t match your editorial taxonomy. "Person" instead of the journalist’s name. "Outdoor scene" instead of your location taxonomy.

    Fluree tags video, audio, text, and images against YOUR controlled vocabulary, so every asset in every format becomes findable, connected, and ready for the AI era.

    How it works

    Three steps.
    One living library.

    From legacy tape libraries to AI-ready archive — with your editorial vocabulary preserved and governed.

    Step 1Connect content systems.

    MAM, DAM, tape libraries, CMS — Fluree reads metadata and media in place. No migration, no duplication.

    Search sources…AVAILABLE SOURCESAvid iNEWSNews MAM · OAuthDalet MAMBroadcast MAMTape archiveLegacy · metadata syncDAM / photosImage library4 systems · 500K assets stagedconnected · ready to query
    Step 2AI tags your vocabulary.

    Not generic labels. Your editorial taxonomy, managed by your team. Fluree processes video, audio, text, and images: every format, against your terms.

    ClipPersonLocationTopicRights
    Step 3Search, discover, reuse.

    Plain-English search across every format and every decade. Every result carries its rights status and traces back to source.

    NLMCPRESTSPARQLCleared Arctic climate footage, 2018–2023?SPARQL · GENERATEDSELECT ?clip ?date ?rights WHERE { ?clip a ebu:VideoClip ; ebu:topic "Arctic climate" ; ebu:created ?date ; ebu:rights ?rights . FILTER (?rights = "cleared")}ANSWER12 cleared clips · 3 archivesCLP-2019-ACLP-2021-BCLP-2023-CCLASSIFIED & TAGGED100K+ / 24 hrstraced · 4 systems
    What Fluree Unlocks For Your Archive

    Six capabilities no MAM, DAM, or generic-AI service gives you on its own.

    Tagged against your editorial taxonomy, not “person” and “outdoor scene”

    Fluree tags content against YOUR controlled vocabulary, managed by your taxonomy team. A news clip isn’t “two people at a podium.” It’s tagged with the journalist’s name, the location from your geography taxonomy, the topic from your editorial taxonomy, and the series from your production database.

    • Your terms, not Rekognition or Cloud Video AI defaults
    • Taxonomy team owns the vocabulary, AI applies it
    • Editorial standards enforced at archive-scale speed
    Side by Side

    Manual & generic-AI cataloguing vs.
    Fluree.

    See how governed AI cataloguing stacks up against manual and generic-AI approaches across every capability that matters for media archives.

    Capability

    Traditional

    Manual & generic-AI

    Fluree

    Fluree AI (Extract + Model)

    Speed

    Months of manual, or noisy generic-AI batches
    100,000+ assets in 24 hours

    Vocabulary alignment

    Generic labels or inconsistent manual tagging
    Your controlled taxonomy, governed by your taxonomy team

    Multi-format coverage

    One format at a time, one system each
    Video + audio + text + images + documents

    Entity resolution

    Not supported
    Golden records — same person across every asset

    Relationship extraction

    Not supported
    People, places, topics, series — all connected

    Legacy-term alignment

    Manual, or not at all
    Automatic — legacy tags ↔ current taxonomy

    Rights integration

    Separate spreadsheets or systems
    Connected in the graph alongside content

    Search experience

    Requires exact metadata queries
    Plain English across every format

    AI / GraphRAG ready

    Not supported
    Native — archive queryable by AI agents
    FAQ

    No. Fluree creates an intelligence layer over your existing systems. Your MAM, DAM, tape management, and digital archive stay in place; content doesn’t move. Fluree connects and enriches it with AI-powered metadata.

    Generic AI (Rekognition, Cloud Video AI) produces inconsistent labels — “person” instead of the journalist’s name, “building” instead of your location taxonomy term. Fluree tags against YOUR controlled vocabulary, managed by your taxonomy team. Every tag aligns with your editorial standards.

    100,000+ assets in 24 hours. Most organizations have enriched, searchable content within days. Full archive processing depends on volume, but the pipeline scales horizontally.

    Cross-vocabulary alignment automatically maps legacy terms to your current taxonomy. Content tagged “Eastern Europe” in 1995 becomes discoverable under “Central and Eastern Europe” today — without re-tagging individual assets.

    Video (all major formats), audio (WAV, MP3, broadcast formats), text (scripts, transcripts, documents), images (photographs, stills, production art), PDFs, and born-digital content. All formats process through the same AI pipeline and tag against the same vocabulary.

    Yes. One query spans video, audio, text, and images — all in plain English. “Footage of [journalist] at [location] in 2019” returns clips, recordings, scripts, and photographs from a single search.

    Rights metadata connects to content in the knowledge graph. When someone searches for content, they see clearance status alongside the asset — owner, restrictions, territory, expiration. Licensing decisions become queries, not research projects.

    Yes. The enriched archive is a knowledge graph ready for GraphRAG and MCP-connected AI agents. Build recommendation engines, automated highlight reels, content-aware ad insertion, and conversational research tools — all querying governed, trusted metadata.

    Recognized by Gartner

    Gartner Cool Vendor, Cool Vendors in Data Management: GenAI Disrupts Traditional Technologies, 30 May 2024Featured in a 2024 Gartner Hype Cycle

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    Decades of premium content, invisible

    Your archive is your most valuable asset — if only you could find what’s in it.

    Fluree’s AI catalogues your entire library against your vocabulary — making every asset findable, connected, and ready for the AI era.

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