Interkommunalt arkiv for Møre og Romsdal

What Interkommunalt arkiv for Møre og Romsdal does

Interkommunalt arkiv for Møre og Romsdal (IKAMR) is a Norwegian inter-municipal company (IKS) established in 2000 and headquartered in Ålesund, Norway. It operates as the designated archive institution for all municipalities in Møre og Romsdal county, providing physical and digital archive depot services, archive ordering and cataloging, public access through a reading room, and a privacy officer (personvernombod) service for GDPR compliance. The organization serves approximately 20 member municipalities plus the county municipality (Møre og Romsdal fylkeskommune), and extends digitization and archive services to cultural heritage institutions (museums, libraries, archives), private organizations, and individual researchers via its SEDAK sub-brand.

IKAMR's technology stack is anchored on established Nordic public-sector platforms: Acos WebSak for case and document management, Asta for archive registration, and KDRS Søk & Vis for digital public access — the latter developed through KDRS, of which IKAMR is a co-owner. Its SEDAK division operates specialized digitization infrastructure including multispectral imaging systems, LED lighting equipment, and a methodology for photographic media conversion using extended technical metadata, validated through international collaborations with Rochester Institute of Technology, NTNU Gjøvik, and Digital Transitions (USA). The organization is also developing Forsete, an AI-based Norwegian handwriting recognition tool in collaboration with NTNU Gjøvik and the regional police district, currently at preliminary project stage.

IKAMR's revenue model is a public-sector inter-municipal utility structure. Recurring contributions from member municipalities, proportionate to ownership stakes, form the baseline. This is supplemented by development project funding from Arkivverket (the National Archives of Norway) and project-based fees for SEDAK digitization services delivered to museums, cultural institutions, and private clients. The organization employs approximately 20 staff organized across municipal archives, cultural services and privacy, and SEDAK digitization, and is governed by a representative assembly and board appointed by the owner municipalities. Recent strategic activity includes expansion of SEDAK's client base to 200+ entities, initiation of the Forsete AI project, and a board reconstitution in June 2024.

Name

Interkommunalt arkiv for Møre og Romsdal

Legal name

Interkommunalt arkiv for Møre og Romsdal IKS

Website

https://www.ikamr.no

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Interkommunalt arkiv for Møre og Romsdal (IKAMR) is a Norwegian inter-municipal archive institution serving all municipalities in Møre og Romsdal county with physical and digital archive management, cultural heritage digitization (SEDAK), and privacy officer services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Archive and Records Management Services

NAICS

Libraries and Archives (519210), Libraries and Archives (51921)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Public Warehousing & Storage (4220)

akta.pro primary industry

National Archives, Records & Information Governance (BPAIAAAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Records Digitization & Archiving (Legacy Files, Retention Support) (BPAAAKAG), OCR, ICR & Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) (BPAAAKAB), Records, Archive & Offsite Storage Management (IMAIALAI)

Keywords

• Municipal archive services
• Cultural heritage digitization
• Document preservation
• Records management
• Archive arrangement

Headquarters

HQ city

Ålesund

HQ country

Norway

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Municipal Contributions: IKAMR operates as an IKS (intermunicipal company) with member municipalities providing operational funding based on ownership stakes
2. Project Funding from Arkivverket: Arkivverket provides development funds (arkivutviklingsmidler) for specific archive development projects including digitization, private archives, and method development
3. Digitization Services (SEDAK): SEDAK performs digitization services for archives, libraries, museums, and cultural institutions across Møre og Romsdal on behalf of Møre og Romsdal county municipality

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

IKAMR operates as an inter-municipal archive institution providing comprehensive archival services to municipalities and institutions in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. Core offerings include physical and digital archive depot storage, electronic archive management and digital long-term preservation, professional archive arrangement (ordning), cultural heritage digitization through the SEDAK division, and public access via reading rooms and transparency services. Specialized sub-brands include FylkesFOTOarkivet for county-wide photographic archive management and Personvernombod for external privacy officer services.

Product overview

IKAMR (Interkommunalt arkiv for Møre og Romsdal IKS) is an inter-municipal archive institution providing comprehensive archival services to municipalities and institutions in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The organization operates as a unified service platform offering both core archival functions and specialized sub-services. Core services include: physical and digital archive depot storage (Depot), electronic archive management and digital long-term preservation (Elektronisk arkiv), professional archive arrangement (Ordning), digitization services, and public access through reading rooms (Lesesal) and transparency services (Innsyn). Specialized offerings include: SEDAK (Fylkessenter for digitisering av kulturarven) for cultural heritage digitization; FylkesFOTOarkivet for county-wide photographic archive management; Privatarkiv services for private institutional records; Personvernombod providing external data protection officer services; and Personregister advisory services. The institution also facilitates annual knowledge-sharing through the Kontaktkonferansen. Services are delivered to municipal owners, cultural institutions (ABM sector), and private organizations across the county.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SEDAK: Fylkessenter for digitisering av kulturarven (County Centre for Digitization of Cultural Heritage) – a county-wide digitization and documentation service performed on behalf of Møre og Romsdal county council, serving archives, libraries, museums (ABM), and cultural heritage institutions.
• FylkesFOTOarkivet

Products and services

• Depot (Arkivdepot) Storage and preservation of archival materials for member municipalities and private institutions, including physical archive storage and digital long-term storage services.
• Elektronisk arkiv (Electronic Archive) Digital archive services including processes for digital depot, electronic preservation, metadata standards, and transfer instructions for digital materials.
• SEDAK (Fylkessenter for digitisering av kulturarven) County-wide cultural heritage digitization center performing documentation, consulting, and media conversion for archives, libraries, museums (ABM), and cultural institutions in Møre og Romsdal, also serving municipalities, organizations, and private entities.
• FylkesFOTOarkivet County photo archive documenting the history of Møre og Romsdal through historical photographs, providing search in Fotobasen, photo ordering, and access to photographer collections.
• Privatarkiv (Private Archives) Services related to private archives including guidance, preservation planning, collection, and accessibility of private institutional records.
• Personvernombod (Privacy Officer Service) External privacy/data protection officer services for organizations, including advisory, resources, and training on GDPR compliance.
• Ordning (Archive Arrangement) Professional archive arrangement and organization services for municipalities and private entities, including cataloging and registration of archival materials.
• Lesesal (Reading Room) Physical reading room access for researchers and the public to access archival materials in person at IKAMR headquarters in \u00c5lesund.
• Arkivplan (Archive Plan) Archive planning guidance and services for municipalities to organize and manage their archival records.
• Personregister (Personal Registers) Advisory services and depot for personal registers no longer in administrative use, with counseling, training, and secure storage.
• Innsyn (Access/Transparency) Public access services allowing citizens to request insight into archival materials in accordance with public records law.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 250 shelf meters of archive material processed for Smøla municipality
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability1 record

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered moderate and core.

• Møre og Romsdal PolitidistriktmoderateStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 July 2025Collaboration on the Forsete project developing AI tools for handwriting recognition to make handwritten documents searchable, initially for cold case investigations.
• NTNU GjøvikcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 July 2025Collaboration partner in the Forsete project for developing AI handwriting recognition tools for Norwegian modern handwriting.
• Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)moderateStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 June 2025Research collaboration with Leah Humenuck, PhD candidate in color science, using archive materials to develop new methods for preserving and digitizing cultural heritage through multispectral imaging technology.
• NTNU GjøvikcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 June 2024Collaboration with NTNU's Department of Computer Technology and Informatics. Professor Giorgio Trumpy serves as external advisor on digitization methodology. Key partner in the media conversion research project.
• KDRS (Kommunearkivinstitusjonenes Digitale RessursSenter)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 February 2024IKAMR is a co-owner of KDRS, which provides digital long-term preservation and search solutions for Norwegian archives. IKAMR contributes to development of KDRS solutions for digital depot and access systems.
• Digital Transitions (USA)moderateTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2024US technology provider delivering newly developed software and LED lighting equipment for the BETA testing phase of the media conversion project with Fylkesfotoarkivet.
• Høgskulen i VoldacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Collaboration with the Department of Social Sciences and History and the library for using primary sources in teaching for history and teacher students. IKAMR provides internship placements and access to archive materials for educational purposes.
• ArkivverketcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Arkivverket provides development funding (arkivutviklingsmidler) for archive development projects and collaborated on the Forsete project.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• IKA Trøndelag: Inter-municipal archive institution (IKS) serving municipalities in Trøndelag, Norway — the closest structural peer to IKAMR with an identical municipal-ownership mandate and overlapping service portfolio of depot, arrangement, and digitization.
• IKA Vestland: Inter-municipal archive for Vestland county in Norway; provides the same IKS-based archive management, digitization, and reading-room services as IKAMR, making it a directly comparable regional government archive.
• KDRS (Kommunearkivinstitusjonenes Digitale RessursSenter): Digital resource center jointly owned by Norwegian inter-municipal archives including IKAMR; provides the shared digital depot, electronic preservation, and search/display infrastructure underlying IKAMR's electronic archive product line.

Broad incumbents

• Arkivverket (National Archives of Norway): Norway's national archive authority and primary funder of municipal archive development projects; the broad incumbent that sets regulatory standards, provides arkivutviklingsmidler grants to IKAMR, and operates national-level archive services.
• Nasjonalbiblioteket (National Library of Norway): Norway's national library operating large-scale digitization programs for cultural heritage; overlaps with IKAMR/SEDAK on digitization services, metadata standards, and cultural-heritage access, but at national scale.

Others

• Preus Museum: National photography museum collaborating with IKAMR on metadata research projects; a customer/partner rather than a competitor, but a comparable cultural-heritage institution in the same Norwegian ABM ecosystem.
• Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT): Academic research partner of IKAMR/SEDAK for multispectral imaging and color science applied to cultural heritage digitization; comparable through joint R&D on archive digitization technology rather than direct service competition.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutu.be/riaMI2olf_Q
• Facebookfacebook.com/ikamr.no

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles20 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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