Case Study: Victoria and Albert Museum achieves connected digital collections and secure video streaming with Aetopia DAM

V&A migrates 1.4M digital assets with Aetopia

The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) needed to modernize how it managed and provided access to its vast digital collections. The challenge involved creating a single source of truth for over 1.4 million assets, improving metadata quality, and expanding public access while also modernizing specialist archives like the National Video Archive of Performance. To address this, the V&A partnered with Aetopia for its digital asset management and video streaming solutions.

Aetopia implemented a DAM platform that integrated with the museum's existing systems, migrating all 1.4 million assets into a central, governed repository. The solution included a secure, IP-controlled streaming portal for the performance archive. As a result, the V&A made over 1.2 million assets publicly accessible online and saw a 4,000% increase in videos watched from the performance archive in a single year following the portal's launch. Aetopia's work provided a scalable infrastructure to support the museum's future growth.

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