1. A host machine for an electronic item management and archival system, the host machine comprising: a communications endpoint that receives items, each item including at least one of image data, audio data, and video data; a computer processor connected to the communications endpoint; software executable by the processor, the software including instructions that create one or more virtual servers, the one or more virtual servers including at least one server that facilitates independent communication between multiple Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) applications and at least one server that creates and manages an archive; and wherein the at least one server that creates and manages an archive includes an item match device configured to automatically verify capture in the archive of a plurality of items expected for capture, based on a respective match control file, automatically perform a first level of item matching, the first level of item matching based on a first set of parameters from the match control file, and automatically perform at least a second level of item matching, the second level of item matching based on a second set of parameters from the match control file, the second set being a subset of the first set, and wherein the second level of item matching, is only performed on items that were not matched at the first level of item matching.