Clarivate announces continued progress for Alma Specto, with six institutions now live across North America, Europe, and Australia.
These organizations represent a diverse range of academic, research, and cultural heritage environments and are leveraging Alma Specto to support digital asset management, discovery, AI-assisted metadata enrichment, digital exhibitions, and long-term preservation. Together, they demonstrate how institutions can use Alma Specto to manage, enrich, preserve, and showcase digital collections at every stage of the lifecycle.
The growing Alma Specto community includes institutions at varying stages of maturity, from organizations focused on large-scale digital asset migration and preservation to those preparing innovative new digital experiences for their users. Together, these institutions demonstrate how Alma Specto can support a range of digital collections priorities while providing a foundation for future growth, innovation, and engagement.
At Bond University, Alma Specto is helping create new opportunities for engagement with digital collections. The institution is preparing a digital exhibition focused on the history of its library while exploring AI-assisted metadata capabilities to improve discoverability, uncover hidden content, and scale collection management efforts.
“Alma Specto presents exciting opportunities for storytelling through curated online exhibitions. We’ll be able to showcase the people, milestones, and achievements that have shaped Bond University over time, presenting them in dynamic and visually compelling ways,” said Sarah Jansen, Director, Library Services at Bond University.
We expect the AI-assisted metadata capabilities to help surface hidden and under-described materials at scale by identifying faces, places, and objects. This will increase the visibility and impact of our collections and mitigate the growing volumes of digital assets that have previously required substantial time to catalogue and organise.”
Kent State University is leveraging Alma Specto to support large-scale digital asset management and preservation initiatives, including the migration and stewardship of more than one million digital objects from legacy systems. By bringing digital preservation and digital asset management together within a single platform, the institution is streamlining operations, strengthening collaboration across teams, and helping ensure long-term access to valuable institutional and cultural resources.
“Alma Specto has brought digital preservation and collection management into a single unified platform, creating efficiencies by eliminating duplicative work,” said Mike Collura, Executive Director, Technology & Resource Innovation at Kent State University.
“Before Alma Specto, staff had to manage files across separate systems for digital asset management and preservation. By bringing our digital collections, archives, and traditional library workflows together on the Alma platform, teams that previously worked in separate systems can now collaborate more effectively, share expertise, and support one another using a common foundation. At the same time, we’ve reduced the number of systems our IT staff need to support and established a stronger foundation for the long-term stewardship and growth of our digital collections.”
Together, these institutions demonstrate how Alma Specto supports a wide range of digital collections priorities: from digital asset management and AI-assisted metadata enrichment to digital exhibitions, discovery, and long-term preservation. While each organization is at a different stage of its digital collections journey, their experiences highlight the value of bringing these capabilities together within a single platform.
“Seeing institutions across North America, Europe, and Australia successfully adopt Alma Specto is an important milestone,” said Yaniv Levi Korem, Vice President, Product Management, Academia & Government, Clarivate. “These organizations represent a variety of digital collections priorities, yet all share a common goal: making their collections easier to manage, preserve, discover, and showcase. Their success reflects the growing momentum behind a unified approach to digital collections management. Looking ahead, we continue to expand Alma Specto with new AI-powered enrichment capabilities, enhanced discovery experiences, innovative exhibition tools, and advanced preservation services, helping institutions unlock even greater value from their digital collections.”
The growing community of Alma Specto customers demonstrates increasing momentum around modern, unified approaches to digital collections management, helping institutions preserve the past while creating new opportunities for discovery and engagement.
To learn how Alma Specto can help your institution manage, enrich, preserve, and showcase digital collections, schedule a personalized demo with our team.
