Case Study: The National WWII Museum pinpoints historic video moments and improves access with NetX

NetX DAM helps National WWII Museum drill down on history

The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, founded in 1999, preserves more than 250,000 artifacts and over 5,000 videotaped oral histories supporting exhibits and research. Faced with hours-long interviews and a collections management system (EMu) that cataloged items but couldn’t create or surface precise moments inside video assets, the museum needed a way for visitors and researchers to find specific footage without watching or re-storing entire videos.

NetX solved this with its Video Clip tool and Data Source Sync: interviews are annotated with time-coded metadata so users can jump to exact moments, and clips are defined without creating new stored files (only generated on download). NetX now acts as the system of record linked to EMu and the museum websites, making video assets more searchable and accessible for virtual field trips, scholars, and the public — with an implementation team that remains responsive to the museum’s needs.

The National WWII Museum

David Robinson

Museum Technologist