Nationell Arkivdatabas (NAD) / Digitala forskarsalen

Business Profile

Core Value Proposition

{"Nationell Arkivdatabas (NAD) provides information about archives and enables searching across Sweden's archive institutions, locations, and organizations.","Digitala forskarsalen provides access to the digitalized archival material (including church records, maps, tax rolls, military lists, probate records, land registers, photographs, etc.) via a search interface that aggregates NAD and other data sources."}

Target Customer

{"Researchers and historians","Students","Genealogists and family researchers","Archivists and information professionals","Libraries, museums, and other archival institutions"}

Key Differentiator

Integrated national search across thousands of Swedish archives and databases (NAD) paired with access to a large digital archive (Digitala forskarsalen), including AI-transcribed text content available in the beta stage.

Implementation Timeline

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Pain Points

1Difficulty locating records across many dispersed Swedish archives and institutions
2Accessing and navigating large volumes of digitized archival material efficiently
3Searching text within documents, with AI-transcribed text available in Beta for broader hit coverage

Key Features

1Nationell Arkivdatabas (NAD): search across archives, registers, and databases; search by archive, place, or institution; support for filtering by institution, type, and time; help and tips pages
2Digitala forskarsalen: search in digitalized archives and databases; access to materials such as kyrkoarkiv (church records), maps, tax lists, military rolls, probate records, land registers, photographs, etc.; two-platform ecosystem where Digitala forskarsalen integrates with NAD
3Fritextsökning and advanced search tips (e.g., search tips, restricting text search to titles/names, time ranges, and other facets)
4Endast digitaliserat material and Endast transkriberat material options to refine results
5AI-transcribed text availability in Beta for certain search results

Target Customer Industries

Client Results

1Users can locate and access archival records, organizations, and institutions across Sweden
2Users can access digitized archival material via two major platforms (NAD and Digitala forskarsalen)
3Users can perform searches with advanced options, including time ranges, exact phrases, and text transcription (beta)

Competitive Advantages

1National coverage by NAD linking numerous institutions and registers
2Access to a large corpus of digitized materials (Digitala forskarsalen)
3Beta AI-based transcription enhances text searchability
4Structured search tools with tips, filters, and multiple search modalities

Key Benefits

1Unified access to Sweden’s archival information and digitized collections

2Ability to search across multiple institutions and datasets from a single interface

3Advanced search capabilities with tips, filters, and time-based queries

4Beta AI-transcribed text enhances searchability within text-rich materials

Additional Product Information

Product Description

Riksarkivet's search services comprising NAD (national archive database) for searching archives, places, and institutions across Sweden, and Digitala forskarsalen for accessing digitized archive material and related databases. The platform set includes tools, filters, and guidance to search across multiple archival sources with a beta AI transcription feature for text hits.

Target Market

Archival institutions, researchers, academics, students, genealogists, libraries, and cultural organizations seeking access to Swedish archival material

Unique Value Proposition

A centralized, national-level gateway to Sweden’s archival information and digitized materials, aggregating data from many institutions and enabling comprehensive search across archives, registers, and databases via NAD and Digitala forskarsalen, with beta AI transcription to enhance text search.

Technical Requirements

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Pricing Model

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