Applying Domain Packs
Domain packs are curated bundles of vocabulary bindings tailored to a sector. Each pack pre-configures which authorities each Data Model field should resolve against, so you get sensible authority linking from the start without configuring every field by hand.
What's in a pack
A pack binds your Data Model fields to an ordered list of sources — places to GeoNames then the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names, people to VIAF then Wikidata, subjects to LCSH then FAST, and so on. Where a source is right for the sector but not yet available in Archivers.ai, the pack simply leaves that binding unset rather than pointing at something that isn't there.
Packs don't change anything destructive. Authorities you have already resolved are kept.
The packs
| Pack | Suggested for |
|---|---|
| Community / mixed heritage | The default. UK community archives and mixed-collection organisations |
| Museums & art | Art museums and galleries — Getty-heavy, with object and iconography vocabularies |
| Archaeology & built heritage | Archaeological archives and historic environment records, with the FISH thesauri |
| Marine & environmental | Marine and environmental archives |
| Research data | Academic and research-data repositories |
| Sports heritage | Sports clubs and sporting heritage |
Applying a pack
Packs are chosen during onboarding, at the step headed Controlled vocabularies:
"Link the people, places and subjects in your records to recognised reference sources (such as the Library of Congress or Getty), so your catalogue stays consistent and connects to the wider archival world. Pick the pack that fits your sector — or skip, and sensible defaults will apply."
- Under 1 · Choose your sector pack, pick the one that fits. Community / mixed heritage is selected by default.
- Under 2 · Apply it, click Apply "pack" pack.
- The step confirms "pack applied — bound to your data model fields". Change lets you pick a different one; already-resolved authorities are kept, and nothing is final until you click Finish.
The step is admin-only, and it is skipped on Community — controlled vocabularies are a paid-plan feature.
Packs are applied during setup only. There is no pack picker in Settings afterwards. To change bindings later, edit them field by field in Settings → Data Model, or use Apply default vocab bindings there to set standard vocabularies on any field that doesn't yet have one.
Building your own pack
If your organisation has a workflow that would benefit from a custom pack — a specific museum domain, a regional archive consortium, a research project with bespoke fields — get in touch via support@archivers.ai.