We will continue to evolve the system and are grateful for any feedback or contributions from anyone interested in exploratory search, multimodal IR, or digital collections research!

Rebecca Sutton Koeser@suttonkoeser.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Check out the recently published software paper on Digital Collections Explorer by @yh-huang.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social - web-based, open-source exploratory, multimodal search for cultural heritage collections doi.org/10.1017/chr....

1/ Announcing GovScape – a public search system for 10 million U.S. government PDFs (70 million pages)! GovScape offers visual search, semantic text search, and keyword search. Explore below: Website: www.govscape.net ArXiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2511.11010

With @yh-huang.bsky.social, I'm excited to share our Digital Collections Explorer, an open-source, multimodal viewer for digital collections! Users can search with both natural language inputs and reverse image search. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00961 Public demo: digital-collections-explorer.com

Digital Collections Explorer: An Open-Source, Multimodal Viewer for Searching Digital Collections

We present Digital Collections Explorer, a web-based, open-source exploratory search platform that leverages CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) for enhanced visual discovery of digital col...

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Thrilled to see our Digital Collections Explorer live! It's been a pleasure working on this multimodal search system. Huge thanks to @bcgl.bsky.social for the invaluable guidance and support throughout this project 🙌

Ben Lee@bcgl.bsky.social · last yr.

With @yh-huang.bsky.social, I'm excited to share our Digital Collections Explorer, an open-source, multimodal viewer for digital collections! Users can search with both natural language inputs and reverse image search. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00961 Public demo: digital-collections-explorer.com