National Museum of Korea Archives: Restoring Collection Context and Designing a Vertical AI System

Abstract. The National Museum of Korea Archive aspires to become a specialized repository that provides comprehensive information on Korean and global cultural heritage. By collecting and documenting the diverse activities and history of the museum, it systematizes the contextual restoration of artifacts, facilitating new discoveries and research, while offering reinterpretation. To achieve this, this paper focuses on various operational cases of the museum's early collection archive, examining how the concept of an archive has been applied and expanded in practice. In particular, as the volume of multi-layered information and interpretative possibilities for artifacts grows, this paper suggests that archives should serve as a core foundation to overcome the limitation of 'decontextualization' and enable context-based interpretation and connections by structuring the entire process of artifact collection, preservation, and utilization. Furthermore, this paper proposes the direction and design principles for developing an intelligent archive system by applying domain-specific Vertical AI technology optimized for the unique knowledge environment of a museum.