Mary Rose Trust Legacy Media Digitisation

This project transformed the Mary Rose Trust’s analogue media archive into a structured, digitised, and commercially viable digital resource. Using an enhanced OAIS-based workflow, it establishes a scalable pipeline for digitisation, metadata creation, storage, and access.

The approach integrated AI-assisted metadata generation, linked open data, and sustainable archiving practices to improve discoverability and long-term preservation. It also enabled content to be segmented and licensed for use by broadcasters, news agencies, and educational platforms.

The outcome is both a preserved cultural asset and a replicable model for other museums and archives, generating new revenue streams while increasing public and academic access to historically significant material.

This project takes old video tapes from the Mary Rose archive and converts them into high-quality digital files that can be easily searched, viewed, and reused.

Instead of the material sitting unused, the project organises it so people can quickly find specific moments, stories, or images. It also allows parts of the footage to be shared or licensed to TV companies, filmmakers, and educators.

In simple terms, it turns a difficult-to-access historical collection into something useful, accessible, and valuable—helping to preserve it for the future while making it available to a much wider audience.