The provenance network · the toolbox

A workshop of specialists. Each one shows its work.

veradis isn’t one black box. It’s a set of specialist tools — each expert at one job, each naming the source it used. Here is the whole toolbox, grouped by the engine it serves.

Each tool serves an engine: Ingestion Enrichment Inference Verification Governance colours match the platform diagram
01

Sources & registries

the evidence — read-only, grounded, cited
Institutional records connectorIngest
Museum & archive systems — PastPerfect, Proficio, Axiell, TMS.
Maker & manufacturer registersIngest
Production books, serial and movement registers, factory archives.
Hallmark & assay registriesIngest
Assay-office marks, date letters, purity and standards.
Trademark & IP registriesIngest
WIPO Madrid filings, maker’s-mark and logo records.
Auction & market recordsIngest
Auction results and comparables — Chrono24, auction houses.
Loss & theft registriesIngest
Interpol Works of Art, Art Loss Register, the Watch Register.
Authority files & ontologiesIngest
VIAF, Getty ULAN / AAT / TGN, Geonames, CIDOC-CRM.
National archives & collectionsIngest
Public archives, war museums, national library catalogues.
Community & third-party sitesIngest
Regimental and enthusiast sites — cross-linked into the network.
02

Reading your object

structured facts out of photos, documents and pages
Vision / object recognitionIngest
Read marks, hallmarks, serials and form factor from photos.
Live today
Document OCR / handwritingIngest
Typed and handwritten archival text into structured fields.
Live today
Webpage extractorIngest
Structured data plus evidence snapshots from any page.
Research agentIngest
Browse the web to gather and cite corroborating evidence.
Catalogue mapperIngest
Guided field mapping for CSV, Excel and flat-file exports.
TranslationIngest
Multilingual archival text — English · German · French.
03

Building the story

thin record → dense, connected story
Entity resolutionEnrich
People, places and makers reconciled to canonical authorities.
Live today
Ontology mapperEnrich
Align every record to the CIDOC-CRM heritage ontology.
Provenance chain builderEnrich
Assemble the production, ownership and exhibition timeline.
Cross-institutional linkerInfer
Proposes links across the network for a curator to review.
Live today
Property enricherEnrich
Fill the ~200-property record from every grounded source.
Comparable & valuationInfer
Indicative worth built from documented, dated sales.
04

Catching red flags

what would stop a sale — flagged before it does
Loss / theft screeningVerify
Match against Interpol, Art Loss Register and the Watch Register.
Restitution & repatriation flagsVerify
Looted-art (Washington Principles), NAGPRA, cultural-property law.
Export & sanctions checkVerify
Cross-border cultural-property and export-control screening.
Forgery & tamper indicatorsVerify
Mark-vs-period, serial gaps, certificate anomalies.
Watch & monitorVerify
Alert on new records or status changes for tracked objects.
05

The scored answer

the score, defended
Corroboration checkVerify
Count the independent sources that agree — and those that don’t.
PCS scorerVerify
Provenance Confidence Score — density × quality × corroboration.
Live today
Evidence packVerify
Scored dossier — every source named, full audit trail attached.
Live today
Conflict & abstainVerify
Surface gaps and contradictions; return “not enough evidence”.
06

Kept honest, kept yours

human sign-off, sovereignty, revenue back
Curator verification queueGovern
Green / amber / red human sign-off before anything is trusted.
Live today
Audit logGovern
Provenance-of-provenance — every tool call recorded.
Enrich-and-ReturnGovern
Sync enrichments back to the source system; nothing extracted.
Sovereignty & consentGovern
Data residency, right-to-submit, redaction — enforced per tool.
Revenue attributionGovern
Per-object credit — the revenue share that flows back to you.
An honest note

The tools marked Live today are the ones running now: reading marks and documents, matching people and places, the cross-collection links, the score, the evidence pack, and a curator’s sign-off. The rest is the roadmap — and today, some enrichment and linking is still scripted and curator-led rather than fully automatic.

Every tool slots in behind the same doors, so the shape doesn’t change as it fills in. And we go deep where we’re alone — institutional records, maker registers, cross-collection links, curator-verified provenance — rather than chasing breadth for its own sake.

Every tool names its source and shows its work — so you can trust the answer, and prove it.

Watch the tools on a real object.

Submit a photo and see each tool name its source, live.

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