Photograph the object
Choose common photo formats or iPhone HEIC/HEIF images. MCVM prepares safe working images and preserves reviewed assignments.
Optional, review-first assistance
AI that helps the museum do the work—not decide what is true.
MCVM can accelerate intake, identification, research, and interpretation while keeping evidence, staff review, and museum judgment at the center.
The photograph-assisted journey
From a newly photographed object to an approved public story.
Review suggested objects
AI can suggest identification and descriptions. Staff split, merge, reassign photos, correct, or reject before records exist.
Create the accession and artifacts
The museum chooses donor/lender, ownership, accession facts, and exactly which artifacts to create.
Develop artifact information
A field-by-field review shows current information beside suggestions. Proposed changes begin unchecked.
Research with context
MCVM keeps museum-authored facts, source evidence, and suggested research distinguishable.
Create the label
Use approved information, choose photos and credit, tune exact layout, and save a professional PDF.
Prepare the public page
Staff approve the artifact, story, and each media item, then preview locally before publication.
Control is a product feature.
Consent before transmission
MCVM explains what will be sent to the configured AI provider.
Suggestions stay separate
Staff choose what to accept and preserve their own wording.
Optional by design
Museums can leave AI unconfigured and continue using core workflows.
The collection database does not become an AI database.
MCVM sends material needed for an approved request—not the entire database. Provider terms, retention, billing, and institutional policy still matter.
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