CultureBot: A Framework for Retrieval-Augmented Exploration of Cultural Heritage Data

Key points

• Digital cultural heritage collections encode rich relations among objects, places, periods, providers, images, and source institutions, yet users typically access them through keyword search and faceted browsing.1
• CULTUREBOT maps user queries to structured catalogue relations, enriches retrieved records with textual evidence, and generates answers that link back to the underlying repository records.1
• We instantiate the framework on 81,852 SearchCulture records and release an online demonstration.1
• These results support graph-guided retrieval as a practical way to expose the relational structure of cultural collections through conversational access while preserving links to catalogue evidence.1

Sources (1)

• [1]CultureBot: A Framework for Retrieval-Augmented Exploration of Cultural Heritage Data
  arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 12, 09:00 AM

  We present CULTUREBOT, an interactive framework for natural-language exploration of cultural heritage collections that combines knowledge-graph-guided retrieval, lexical-semantic retrieval, and source-linked generation.

  Digital cultural heritage collections encode rich relations among objects, places, periods, providers, images, and source institutions, yet users typically access them through keyword search and faceted browsing.

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