AUCKLAND COUNCIL

• Merging assets and data from disparate sources and organisations, consolidating to a single easy to use solution.
• Currently the Auckland Council manages over 300,000 images available on their Atlas solution named The Wire. We host the solution which provides brand, imagery and communications information to the entire organisation.
• Before Auckland council merged Atlas was already providing services to Auckland City Council, North Shore City Council, Auckland Regional Council, Auckland ZOO, Ateed, Metrowater all using separate services.
• When the Auckland Council was formed merging these organisations and many others, a project was defined to merge to collect and archive images and some documents with ‘any’ recoverable data from all 8 city councils, numerous CCOs, libraries and local boards. Features such as Signage builders, Public notice workflows, and Brand management were retained and expanded.
• The images were stored in diverse ways including databases, file servers, personal computers, CDs and DVDs. We collected the data and managed it all into a system retaining keywords, filenames, credits, talent releases, rights for use, owners where they could be found.
• The project quickly moved into keyword consolidation, spell checking and providing a set of tools to manage this process and provide and efficient sustainable process for collecting, and collating going forward. Keyword strategies and tools were implemented along with checking techniques.
• This project was completed within 2 months and retains much of the implementation today.
• Since then many improvements have been made such as map searches for images, automated (Artificial Intelligence) keywording, and photoshoot/collection management.

NIWA

As one of the early adopters of digital asset management NIWA had data in various locations and varying states that had been collected over the decades including physical negatives, tape, access databases, image managers, servers and personal computers.

Atlas built and developed bulk loading techniques to ingest thousand of images and associated data in an automated manner. Atlas has developed bespoke features to categorise images taxonomically, geospatially, to and adapt as technology changed through the years.