5-30, the list of winners of the provincial round of the Visual Art Design Competition of the 16th Lanqiao Cup National Software and Information Technology Professional Talent Competition was announced. Under the guidance of Associate Professor Yuan Cheng, a researcher at the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Development and Service of Archives, undergraduates Ling Zhang and Wenjing Shu and master's student Shuning Tang of the School of Information Management, Wuhan University, jointly completed the project "“ArcToolBox: Multimodal Digital Narrative Platform",” which won second prize in the provincial round. “

ArcToolBox: Multimodal Digital Narrative Platform",” focuses on the intelligent generation of archival digital narratives and aims to use technology to address the problems of traditional archival dissemination, such as limited forms, low resource utilization, and the difficulty of narrative development. Based on multimodal large model API scheduling technology, the platform achieves the intelligent transformation of two core processes, in-depth analysis of archival resources and multimodal content creation, and builds a complete closed-loop ecosystem covering “archive parsing—story generation—interaction design—dissemination and operation”, turning dormant archival texts and images into perceptible, easily shared dynamic stories.

The Lanqiao Cup National Software and Information Technology Professional Talent Competition is organized by the Talent Exchange Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. It has been held fifteen times and has been included for five consecutive years in the China Association of Higher Education's "“National Ranking of Discipline Competitions in Regular Higher Education Institutions”". More than 1900 universities have taken part, and the total number of participants has exceeded 1200,000. The Lanqiao Cup includes multiple tracks, such as the Visual Art Competition, the Software Competition, and the Electronics Competition.

In the future, the laboratory will continue to focus on cultivating talent for the digital and intelligent era, encouraging and supporting its students to participate in information science competitions and bringing new vitality to the field of document and data management.