ARCHAI
Semantic Infrastructure for Cultural Memory · FAMTEC / RMIT
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Build v11.6.15 · connecting… · rights-aware media · AUXIO setup bench
Ollama LLM Directus CMS Qdrant GitHub
Role
Curator access · collection editing, AUXIO publishing, vocab tools
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EU APIs—
Draft institutional demo / WIP. Testing the ARCHAI semantic layer, staff collection search, AUXIO publishing, voice/audio access, rights-aware media, IIIF viewing, and CMS/DAMS connector workflows before partner deployment.
Curator & Collections
Exhibitions · Live 2⚠
AUXIO Management 0
Vocabulary & Thesaurus
Connect Collection
Online Shows 1
Soul & Voice
Visitor View
FAMTEC Exchange
Collection Intelligence — talk to the database
Collection Voice Query
Speak a staff-facing question to the whole collection. Transcript appears in the search field before ARCHAI responds.
Ready for typed or spoken collection queries.
Converse
Classic Search
Colour
Image
Visual Similarity
Role
Curator
Collections
Research
Scope
All
Technology
History
Science
Collection
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Infrastructure
Qdrant
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Ollama · local LLM
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Directus CMS
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Collection Objects
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Active Vocabulary
① AATGetty Art & Architecture
② LocalInstitutional terms
③ LCSHInactive
Manage Vocabularies →
Collection Pipeline
Sources: MV + Met + V&A + AIC + CMA + Rijks + Europeana + Auckland + Te Papa
Licence: CC BY / CC0 / Open
Embed model: nomic-embed-text
Objects loaded: 0
Cultural Safety
Level 0 — Clear: active
Level 3 — Excluded: pipeline-enforced
CARE Principles · Global Indigenous Data Alliance
Quick Links
Qdrant Dashboard → Directus Admin → Ollama API → GitHub Repo →
Exhibitions · Live Node Status
Real-time status of exhibition hardware nodes managed via Nodel. MV objects linked to physical spaces.
Open Nodel →
Refresh
Entrance Atrium
Online
Rob-01
AUXIO-Kiosk-01
2/2 onlineRuntime: 6h 14m
Hall 2 — Digital Art
1 Warning
Proj-01
Player-SignalDecay
Audio-01
2/3 nominal⚠ Player intermittent
Hall 3 — Generative
Online
GPU-SynthGarden
Display-SG-01
2/2 onlineRuntime: 6h 14m
Level 2 — Digital Histories
Offline
Echo-Circuit-VM
Display-L2-01
0/2 onlineGallery closed
All Nodes
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Export Log
NodeTypeGalleryStatusRuntimeCollection RecordActions
Rob-Robot-01Interactive RobotAtrium● Online6h 14mMV linked →
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Logs
GPU-SyntheticGardenComputeHall 3● Online6h 14mMV linked →
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Logs
Player-SignalDecayMedia PlayerHall 2⚠ Warning4h 02mMV linked →
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Diagnose
Echo-Circuit-VMEmulation VMLevel 2○ Offline0hNot linked
Power On
Event & Fault Log — TodayExport to Records
11:47am⚠ Player-SignalDecay: buffer underrun, auto-recoveredView →
10:23am● GPU-SyntheticGarden: model loaded, render startedView →
09:01am● Gallery open sequence: completeSchedule →
02:30am● ARCHAI™ pipeline: embeddings completePipeline →
Exhibition Schedule
ISEA2026 — ARCHAI™ Demonstration
Dubai · Conference
Apr 11–12 2026
MV Technology Collection — Pilot Exhibition
Melbourne Museum · Pilot
May 2026 (TBC)
PhD Review — Milestone 2
RMIT · Academic
Jun 2026
Today's Schedule
✓ 08:55 Gallery open — all zones
✓ 09:00 Rob-Robot-01 — active
✓ 09:00 GPU-SyntheticGarden — boot
○ 17:00 Gallery close sequence
○ 17:05 Rob the Robot — standby
Collection Summary
Objects loaded: —
Embedded in Qdrant: Yes
Embed model: nomic-embed-text
LLM: local model
Visitor Interactions
Robot interactions: 87
AUXIO scans: 54
Comments received: 12
Quick Actions
Open Nodel Interface → Configure in Directus →
Browse Collection →
Emergency Stop All
Directus Status
Directus CMS is optional at this stage. Qdrant is the primary data layer for search and object metadata. Directus becomes useful when you need a structured editing UI for exhibition node assignments and content management beyond what the prototype provides.
AUXIO Tags
+ Onboard
All
Live
Draft
Unassigned
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Select an AUXIO tag to edit
Create an AUXIO record, assign any loaded object, or draft a new institutional object for a museum/gallery visitor page.
Visitor Preview — Mobile
Tap an AUXIO tag from the list to preview
Active Vocabularies
Toggle and order priority. Used during search and upload tagging.
AAT
Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Styles, materials, techniques, object types.
Priority ① · loading…
Local
Collection-derived vocabulary. Extracted live from Qdrant across all active museum collections.
Priority ② · loading…
CHIN
Canadian Heritage Information Network. Discipline Authority List (2006), bilingual EN/FR.
Active · CHIN-aligned
DOCAM
Documentation and Conservation of Media Arts Heritage. Preservation, emulation, variable media.
Active · media art focus
Nomenclature
Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging (Parks Canada/CHIN). Object naming and classification.
Active · LOD-friendly
LCSH
Library of Congress Subject Headings.
Inactive · 340,000+ terms
TGN
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names.
Inactive · 2M+ names
ULAN
Getty Union List of Artist Names. Creator authority.
Inactive · 300,000+ names
Term Search
Type a term to search across all collection vocabularies.
Indigenous Protocol — Restricted Terms
This vocabulary layer is governed under community agreement. Terms relating to First Nations cultural materials require consultation before use in public-facing metadata.
Term Detail
Select a term to see details.
Connect a Collection — Harvester / API Setup
Point ARCHAI at your collection API. This builds a harvester config for the onboarding pipeline: raw records are preserved exactly as received, rights and cultural-protocol metadata stay attached per item, and nothing is published until it passes the legal and media gates. Your collection system is never modified — ARCHAI reads, it does not write.
1 · Institution
2 · Source
Keys are never stored in this page or the config — they live in the host keychain (Keytec) and are injected at harvest time.
3 · Rights & cultural safety defaults
What happens next
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Download your connector file — it captures everything you entered here. Nothing has touched your systems; this is just a description of how ARCHAI should read them.
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Send it to your IT contact — or to us. A test run reads a small sample of records and produces a report: what was found, what the rights gates would hold back, what the images look like. Read-only, reversible, nothing published.
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Review together, then go live. After your team approves the report and the rights review, the full collection is connected. Your staff search it here; nothing appears publicly until you curate and publish it.
The full path: connect → test run → legal review → live connection → staff search → curated AUXIO publish. Questions at any step: rob@fineartmedia.tech
▸ Technical configuration — for your IT team
This connector drops into backend-archai/scripts/collection-targets.json, the registry the legal-harvest bot reads. Runs follow the standard gates: dry-run → item-rights check → media audit → curator rebuild → AUXIO regeneration. Full checklist: COLLECTION_ONBOARDING_BLUEPRINT.md. 

        
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ARCHAIX Online Show Builder

          
Build a museum-grade online exhibition from approved records.

          
This loaded example shows how a GLAM team can set a banner, logo and curatorial text, then publish selected objects from ARCHAI as an image-led online show where each work opens into a grounded AUXIO conversation.

        

        

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Select works from the connected collection

            
Search the ARCHAI curator index, choose a room, then add an image-ready record. Duplicate objects are blocked. Clearly restricted media cannot be added; mixed or preview rights remain visibly flagged for review.

          

          
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          Voice & Soul · soul.md
          the persona, tone & guardrails for this collection’s ARCHAI + AUXIO voice
        
        

          

            The human-authored voice layer, applied on top of the grounded record. It shapes how the collection speaks; it never overrides the facts. Edit it, then export soul.md to version and apply it to your ARCHAI and AUXIO interfaces.
          

          
          

            
            
            
          

        

      


      

        
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Soul & Voice · persona design

    

      Author the soul.md voice layer for each way your institution speaks — curatorial, exhibitions, collection, education, guide, or a specific interactive — and assign the voice (Piper / Whisper, or a custom Australian clone) that reads it aloud. The soul shapes how ARCHAI and AUXIO speak; it never overrides the grounded record.
    


    
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soul.md — Curatorial

        
        

          
          
          
        

      


      

        
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15–40s of clean, consented speech per voice (WAV/MP3). Cloned by Coqui XTTS on your own machine — audio never leaves the building. An Australian reference gives an Australian clone.

          
          

        

      

    


    

      
      
      Bundles every persona’s soul.md, voice assignment & recording manifest for your ARCHAI deployment.
    

  







  

    

      
Collection Objects — Visitor Pages

      

    

    

      

        
Select an object

        
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Select an object from the left panel

        

        

          
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Semantically related objects

        
        

          
Leave a response — your note joins the collection record

          

          
          
          

        

      

    

  







  

    

      
Institutions

      

      
Network Stats

      
Institutions
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Loan listings
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Skills requests
2 open

      
Tech bookings
1 pending

      
Data mode
Prototype mirror

    

    

      

        
Prototype Integration Boundary

        
FAMTEC Exchange is shown inside ARCHAI™ for workflow testing. In production this runs as a separate platform with its own database and auth, while ARCHAI™ retains collection and visitor infrastructure for data sovereignty.

      

      

        

          
FAMTEC Exchange

          
Institution-to-institution sharing · loan / rental hardware · skilled technician booking · exhibition support

        

        

          
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Loan

        
Rental

        
Need Skills

        
Available Crew

        
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Institution Chat

      

        

          
FAMTEC × RMIT Gallery (demo)

        

        

        

          
          
        

      

    

  







  

    
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Interrogate this Object — live local LLM

        

          
Response Language

          

            
            
            
            
            
            
          

          
Replies stay in English. Choose another language to return object chat in that language, then use Translate record to convert the curatorial description and key metadata in this view.

          

            
            
          

          

            
              Audio / voice tools
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ARCHAI Neutral prefers a modern browser voice and avoids legacy voices where possible.

              

                
                
                
                
              

              
Browser speech demo for now. Backend Whisper + Coqui route is the next production step.

            

          

        

        

          
Ask anything about this object. Responses are grounded in verified collection metadata — hallucination prevention active.

        

        

          
          
        

        

      

      

        
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      Project List / Selected Objects
      

        
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      Full Metadata Record — Qdrant Payload
      

        

      

    

    

      Legal Status / Source Use
      

    

    

      
Visitor Comments