Trusted AI Digital Repository
Build AI on knowledge you control.
Bring together your collections, metadata, rights, and institutional knowledge in a governed environment so you can create AI-powered experiences without giving up control of your data, context, or policies.
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Your AI should work from your knowledge
Your institution already has the knowledge AI needs.
Your collections, digital assets, archival material, metadata, rights information, provenance, and institutional expertise already form a body of trusted knowledge.
A Trusted AI Digital Repository connects those sources in a governed environment so you decide what AI can access, how it can use that information, and which experiences it can support.
Uncontrolled information
Draws from the open web
Unclear provenance
May include outdated/inaccurate information
No control over sources
Higher risk of errors/misattribution
Trusted institutional knowledge
Verified collections/records
Rich metadata/context
Rights and permissions applied
Governed access/use
Grounded in institutional expertise
A Terentia foundational framework
The Five Layers of Trust
Trust is not a single feature. It has to be designed across the knowledge environment.
The framework stays consistent. The implementation is yours. Your systems, policies, workflows, collections, and AI priorities determine how the five layers come together in your environment.
How it comes together
1. Curate your trusted sources
Determine which collections, repositories, systems, metadata fields, and assets belong in the trusted knowledge environment.
2. Build AI contexts
Create purpose-specific contexts with the right approved data, permissions, instructions, and levels of human review.
3. Deliver many experiences
Support research, education, public discovery, visitor engagement, collections workflows, and internal knowledge from one governed foundation.
Platform integrations
Work with the environment you already have.
A Trusted AI Digital Repository does not have to begin with a rip-and-replace project. Connect existing collections systems, DAMS, archives, research databases, shared repositories, and other institutional sources through APIs and integrations. The goal is to create a governed knowledge layer around the environment you already operate.
One trusted foundation. Many possibilities.
What could you build on top of your trusted knowledge?
Collections workflows
Use AI to support OCR, transcription, metadata enrichment, image and video indexing, and discovery while retaining human review.
Research & discovery
Enable natural-language and semantic search across trusted collections so researchers can uncover records, relationships, and primary sources.
Public access
Create more intuitive ways for audiences to explore collections while maintaining control over the content and context being surfaced.
Education
Build purpose-specific learning experiences grounded in approved institutional sources.
Visitor experiences
Create conversational, personalized, or interpretive experiences that remain connected to institutional context.
Internal knowledge
Help staff find and use institutional knowledge distributed across systems, departments, and repositories.
Your institution. Your implementation.
01 · Trusted Assets
What knowledge do we want AI to use?
02 · Trusted Metadata
Which sources do we trust?
03 · Trusted Rights
What should remain restricted?
04 · Trusted Workflows
Where should human review happen?
05 · Trusted Intelligence
Which experiences matter most to our audiences and staff?
A real-world example
See how another institution approached it.
The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library faced its own version of the challenge: historical material distributed across collections and institutions, with ambitious plans for research, discovery, and public engagement.
Terentia serves as the Trusted AI Digital Repository for TRPL’s collections environment, providing a governed foundation from which downstream research and public experiences can draw.
Resources
Continue exploring trusted AI
Let’s talk about your environment
Build AI on your terms.
You may already have the right collections, systems, and expertise. We can help you look at your current environment, identify the knowledge that matters, and explore what a Trusted AI Digital Repository could look like for your institution.
Your data.
Your environment.
Your rules.
Your AI.
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About the imagery on this page
Collection images shown on this page are used as illustrative examples of cultural heritage content and are sourced from public-domain or open-access collections. Their inclusion does not imply any commercial relationship, endorsement, sponsorship, or partnership between Terentia and the contributing institutions. The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library is featured separately as a Terentia customer and case study.
