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About Voidgap

Archive search & tagging

Ask the archivist.Search.

how people find a clip

Client
Industry
Media
Region
Germany
Moves
Build
Kick-off to hand-over
6 weeks
Year
2024

01The void

Decades of footage, photos and scripts, tagged inconsistently or not at all. Finding a clip meant asking the one person who remembered where it was.

02Results

Assets with usable metadata22 %96 %
Time to find a clip45 min30 sec
Archive requests to staff, per week12015

Sample figures. Replace with the numbers the client signed off.

03How we worked

  1. 01 · 1 dayFind the void

    Workshop with editors and archivists: what do people actually search for?

  2. 02 · 1 weeksScope & evals

    Test set: 250 real search requests with the right answer.

  3. 03 · 3.5 weeksBuild

    Transcription, vision tagging and semantic search, in batch and live.

  4. 04 · half a weekSecure & comply

    Rights metadata enforced: restricted assets never surface.

  5. 05 · 1 weeksHand over

    Editors trained; the archive team owns the taxonomy.

04What we built

  1. 01Archivevideo, photo, text
  2. 02Transcriptionvision
  3. 03Tagginghouse taxonomy
  4. 04Indexsemantic + keyword
  5. 05 · controlRights filterat query time
  6. 06Searchin the newsroom

05Guardrails

  • Rights and embargo metadata enforced at query time
  • No training on client material
  • Human review for sensitive tags

06Stack

Speech-to-textVision modelOpenSearchPythonNewsroom SSO

07In their words

slot · client quote

A quote from the process owner goes here, once they have approved it. No invented testimonials.

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