Retrieval-Augmented Search for Large-Scale Map Collections with ColPali
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| author | Mahowald, Jamie Lee, Benjamin Charles Germain |
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| contents | Multimodal approaches have shown great promise for searching and navigating digital collections held by libraries, archives, and museums. In this paper, we introduce map-RAS: a retrieval-augmented search system for historic maps. In addition to introducing our framework, we detail our publicly-hosted demo for searching 101,233 map images held by the Library of Congress. With our system, users can multimodally query the map collection via ColPali, summarize search results using Llama 3.2, and upload their own collections to perform inter-collection search. We articulate potential use cases for archivists, curators, and end-users, as well as future work with our system in both machine learning and the digital humanities. Our demo can be viewed at: http://www.mapras.com. |
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| spellingShingle | Retrieval-Augmented Search for Large-Scale Map Collections with ColPali Mahowald, Jamie Lee, Benjamin Charles Germain Information Retrieval Digital Libraries Multimodal approaches have shown great promise for searching and navigating digital collections held by libraries, archives, and museums. In this paper, we introduce map-RAS: a retrieval-augmented search system for historic maps. In addition to introducing our framework, we detail our publicly-hosted demo for searching 101,233 map images held by the Library of Congress. With our system, users can multimodally query the map collection via ColPali, summarize search results using Llama 3.2, and upload their own collections to perform inter-collection search. We articulate potential use cases for archivists, curators, and end-users, as well as future work with our system in both machine learning and the digital humanities. Our demo can be viewed at: http://www.mapras.com. |
| title | Retrieval-Augmented Search for Large-Scale Map Collections with ColPali |
| topic | Information Retrieval Digital Libraries |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25718 |