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In Humans of AI, information labs brings to life the intersection of artificial intelligence and cultural heritage. Across a series of punchy, story-driven video capsules, we meet the projects and people who are redefining how we read, remember, and reimagine our shared memory. This isn’t AI as hype — it’s AI as heritage in motion.

  1. 3d ago ·  Bonus

    How AI Can Unlock the Hidden Stories in Cultural Heritage - Winnie Lam (Plinth) | Humans of AI

    🔍 In this episode of Humans of AI, Winnie Lam, co-founder of Plinth, explores how AI can help unlock the stories hidden within our digital cultural heritage. From 3D digitisation to semantic search, we discuss how AI can connect collections, uncover new insights and turn cultural heritage into engaging experiences for the public, while keeping reliable sources and human creativity at the centre. 📌 About Our Guests Winnie Lam | plinth 🌐 linkedin.com/in/wingyanlam 🌐 https://plinth.it/  Winnie Lam is the Co-Founder of Plinth, where she leads the company’s vision for expanding the reuse of digital cultural heritage. Her work focuses on how cultural institutions can transform digitised collections into creative experiences that generate wider public value. With a background spanning technology, entrepreneurship, and cultural innovation, Winnie is particularly interested in the role of bridge actors who connect heritage assets with audiences and real-world uses. She is currently exploring how AI can unlock the value of Europe’s text-based heritage through more meaningful discovery, interpretation, and responsible reuse.  Plinth is an organisation that uses 3D digitisation and AI driven technologies to make cultural heritage more accessible and engaging. It helps museums, galleries and other cultural institutions create detailed digital versions of artworks and connect collections through semantic search, making it easier for people to discover, explore and reuse cultural heritage. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI

    How AI Can Unlock the Hidden Stories in Cultural Heritage - Winnie Lam (Plinth) | Humans of AI

  2. Oct 13 ·  Bonus

    How AI Is Changing Archives Forever - Bart Magnus & Matthias Priem (meemoo) | Humans of AI

    🔍 In this episode of Humans of AI, Matthias and Bart from meemoo share how they use AI to make millions of digital heritage assets more discoverable while keeping archivists, ethics, privacy and human judgment at the centre. We discuss automated transcription, summarisation and facial recognition, and what it takes to adopt AI responsibly and at scale. 📌 About Our Guests Matthias Priem & Bart Magnus | meemoo 🌐 linkedin.com/in/matthiaspriem 🌐 linkedin.com/in/bart-magnus-557b384 🌐 https://meemoo.be/ Matthias Priem is a Manager of Archiving at meemoo, Flemish institute for archives, a Belgian organisation that provides services on digital heritage processes to cultural, media and government organisations in Flanders. His professional background includes working with infrastructure, software, and metadata, and he studied as an Electronics Engineer at Katholieke Hogeschool 'Sint-Lieven' in Ghent. Bart Magnus works as an expertise officer at meemoo, Flemish institute for archives, a Belgian organisation that provides services on digital heritage processes to cultural, media and government organisations in Flanders. Bart's domains of work include open data, legal and ethical aspects of AI and GLAM. He's a big fan of public domain, open knowledge, Wikimedia, Creative Commons and of course, Internet Archive. Meemoo is a Flemish non-profit organisation supported by the government that helps cultural, media, and civic institutions digitally safeguard their heritage. It specialises in digitising, managing, and preserving valuable audiovisual materials, historical newspapers, and artworks to make these accessible and usable for the public, researchers, and educational platforms. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI

    How AI Is Changing Archives Forever - Bart Magnus & Matthias Priem (meemoo) | Humans of AI

  3. Oct 8 ·  Bonus

    Can We Trust AI With Our Cultural Heritage? - Juha Henriksson (Europeana) | Humans of AI

    🔍 In this episode of Humans of AI, Juha Henriksson explores how artificial intelligence is transforming the cultural heritage sector. He discusses how AI can accelerate digitisation, metadata creation, and access to archives, while raising important questions around trust, provenance, copyright, and data protection. The conversation also looks at the emerging role of agentic AI and how cultural heritage institutions can work more closely with researchers and creative industries to bring collections to life in new ways. 📌 About Our Guests Juha Henriksson | Europeana 🌐 https://www.linkedin.com/in/juha-henriksson-maf/  Juha Henriksson has been the Director of Music Archive Finland since 1997. He has a master's degree in computer science and a doctorate in musicology. He works as a Partnership Manager for Time Machine Organisation and is an Associate Professor in Ethnomusicology at the University of Helsinki. Henriksson is Europeana Ambassador and he is involved in many international initiatives and organisations such as the common European data space for cultural heritage, the Cultural Heritage Cloud, EIT Culture & Creativity, AI4LAM, Open Heritage Coalition, and the Virtual Worlds Association. Based on his diverse background and experience, he examines artificial intelligence from many different perspectives. For example, he is currently on the steering groups of Europeana's Impact, Copyright, Climate Action and EuropeanaTech Communities. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI

    Can We Trust AI With Our Cultural Heritage? - Juha Henriksson (Europeana) | Humans of AI

  4. Sep 29 ·  Bonus

    Can AI Preserve Our Cultural Heritage? - Annamaria Van Ingelgem & Eva Andersen (Glashelder) | Humans of AI

    🔍 In this episode of Humans of AI, Annamaria van Ingelgem and Eva Andersen from Ghent University’s Boekentoren discuss Glashelder, a project using AI to describe and enrich more than 60,000 digitised historical glass photographic plates. They explore human-AI collaboration, open-weight models, responsible access to sensitive collections, and why transparency and provenance matter when AI enters the GLAM sector. 📌 About Our Guests Annamaria Van Ingelgem & Eva Andersen | Glashelder 🌐 https://www.linkedin.com/in/evaandersenprofile/  🌐 https://www.linkedin.com/in/annamaria-van-ingelgem-7b6662277/  🌐 https://boekentoren.gent/nl/artikels/categorie/glashelder  Annamaria van Ingelgem is part of the Digital Heritage Collections team at Ghent University’s Boekentoren. She works on digitising and making the library’s extensive heritage collections accessible, while collaborating on innovative digital projects such as Glashelder.  Eva Andersen is the project and data manager for Glashelder. She oversees the project’s work packages, goals and milestones, while also working on communication and helping coordinate the development of its AI-based approach to processing the collection.  Glashelder is a research project that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to describe 62,000 digitised glass plates and make them accessible to the public. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI

    Can AI Preserve Our Cultural Heritage? - Annamaria Van Ingelgem & Eva Andersen (Glashelder) | Humans of AI

  5. Sep 22

    A Jetpack for Humanists! - Derek Lomas (Source Library / TU Delft) | Humans of AI 2

    🔍 In this episode of Humans of AI, Derek Lomas discusses how AI is transforming access to cultural heritage. From translating Renaissance texts and unlocking vast archives to enabling new forms of cross-cultural research, AI is opening up possibilities that were previously out of reach. He also explores the challenges of adopting AI in academia and argues for a more humanistic, flexible approach to policy and education. 📌 About Our Guests Derek Lomas | Embassy of the Free Mind / TU Delft 🌐 https://www.linkedin.com/in/dereklomas/  🌐 https://www.derek-lomas.com  🌐 https://sourcelibrary.org Derek Lomas is a cognitive scientist, designer, and entrepreneur. He has designed 35+ educational games and over a dozen games for psychological assessment, reaching more than 3 million students and earning recognition from Sesame Street, the White House, the MacArthur Foundation, DARPA, and the NYC Department of Education. He has conducted research with over 100,000 learners and is CEO of Playpower Labs, where he helps digital education companies leverage data, technology, and design. His mission is to enhance global wellbeing through artificial intelligence and humanistic design. Source Library is a project that uses AI to translate and make accessible thousands of pre-modern texts, including Renaissance works that have remained largely untranslated for centuries. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI

    A Jetpack for Humanists! - Derek Lomas (Source Library / TU Delft) | Humans of AI 2

  6. Feb 3 ·  Bonus

    Humans of AI | Kai Jauslin (Webarchiving Display) - Exploring the Web of the Past

    🔍 In this episode of Humans of AI, Kai Jauslin, interaction designer and AI developer, discusses how his “Websites for Netherland” project turned web archives into interactive public experiences, evolving from a Swiss National Library installation into an open-source, Europe-wide initiative with Internet Archive Europe, using AI to extract metadata, translate content, and enable conversational search. He also addresses legal and data-access challenges in public institutions and envisions expanding the project internationally, improving metadata, and enhancing voice interaction. His key takeaway: explore and “play” with open data to create engaging, human-centered cultural experiences. 📌 HoAI Highlights ⏲️[00:00] Intro ⏲️[00:35] The Spark ⏲️[06:11] The Impact ⏲️[10:05] The Challenge ⏲️[14:15] The Future ⏲️[18:36] The Takeaway The Spark 🗣️“I like to work closely with institutions… it’s a joint process, and that’s what makes it special.” The Impact 🗣️ “AI acted as a translator between archived images and user queries, creating a common ground that made search and exploration possible.” The Challenge 🗣️ “Public institutions face legal and access challenges that limit how open data can be used, creating a gap between what corporations and small organizations can do with AI.” The Future 🗣️“AI enables us to quickly build specific, playful applications with open data, merging coding and design in ways that were previously too costly or complex.” The Takeaway 🗣️ “Go and play with the data—use open archives as a playground to explore, experiment, and build your own vision.” 📌 About Our Guests Kai Jauslin | Webarchiving Display 🌐 linkedin.com/in/kjauslin 🌐 https://nextension.com/  🌐 https://webarchiving.internetarchive.eu/ The Webarchiving Display project turns archived websites into interactive, navigable visualizations, letting the public explore historical web content through AI-enhanced search and voice interaction. #AI #artificialintelligence #generativeAI

    Humans of AI | Kai Jauslin (Webarchiving Display) - Exploring the Web of the Past

  7. Jan 27 ·  Bonus

    Humans of AI | Daniel Erasmus (ClimateGPT) - When Cultural Memory Meets Planetary Memory

    🔍 In this episode, Daniel Erasmus discusses why climate change is one of humanity’s biggest challenges and how AI can help bridge the gap between knowledge and action. He explains the origins of ClimateGPT as an open, science-based model designed to support policy, risk assessment, and climate responses globally. Daniel emphasizes that the challenge isn’t solutions, but making decisions faster and more rationally. As AI shapes how we understand and respond to climate risks, transparent, human-centered models are key to accelerating a safe, carbon-neutral future. 📌 HoAI Highlights ⏲️[00:00] Intro ⏲️[00:30] The Spark ⏲️[07:32] The Impact ⏲️[12:13] The Challenge ⏲️[15:36] The Future ⏲️[19:33] The Takeaway The Spark 🗣️“By combining a decade of extreme weather data, SDGs, and scientific research, ClimateGPT gives humanity a clear, actionable view of climate impacts and interventions.” The Impact 🗣️ “By building small, efficient, and open AI models grounded in scientific data, we can empower anyone to make informed, anticipatory decisions on climate risks at planetary scale.” The Challenge 🗣️ “AI can help humanity access the best climate knowledge and make faster, smarter, and safer decisions for a carbon-neutral future.” The Future 🗣️“Grounding AI in data and observations helps policymakers make transparent, rational decisions for a carbon-neutral future.” The Takeaway 🗣️ “We often forget that, despite the challenges, we should focus on the hopeful future we want to create for ourselves, our children, and our children’s children.” 📌 About Our Guests Daniel Erasmus | ClimateGPT 🌐 linkedin.com/in/daniel-erasmus-94282  🌐 https://climategpt.ai ClimateGPT is an open-source AI platform designed to support climate decision-making by turning complex climate science and data into clear, actionable insights. It is built specifically for climate use cases, helping researchers, policymakers, and organizations analyze risks, policies, and scenarios. The goal of ClimateGPT is to democratize access to trustworthy, science-based climate intelligence worldwide. #AI #artificialintelligence #generativeAI

    Humans of AI | Daniel Erasmus (ClimateGPT) - When Cultural Memory Meets Planetary Memory

  8. Jan 20 ·  Bonus

    Humans of AI | Harry Verwayen (Europeana) - Connecting Culture Across Borders

    🔍 In this episode, Harry Verwayen from Europeana reflects on how Europe’s cultural heritage sector is responding to the rise of AI while staying rooted in the idea that culture belongs to everyone. He shares the origins of Europeana as a public alternative to private digitization efforts and explains how AI is being used to improve access to millions of cultural objects, guided by long-standing values like openness, authenticity, and provenance. Harry argues that the real challenge is not technology but adoption, governance, and public trust. As chatbots increasingly replace search engines as the main interface to knowledge, he warns that without sustained public investment and engagement, Europe’s cultural diversity risks becoming invisible in an AI-driven future. 📌 HoAI Highlights ⏲️[00:00] Intro ⏲️[00:48] The Spark ⏲️[02:47] The Impact ⏲️[09:41] The Challenge ⏲️[14:56] The Future ⏲️[20:10] The Takeaway The Spark 🗣️“Culture heritage belongs to all of us. Why would exclusive access to that only happen through a private entity?” The Impact 🗣️ “The data really is like a garden, you need to keep nurturing it, because what is a derogative term today may change in the future.” The Challenge 🗣️ “I don’t think it’s a technological challenge.Tthe technology is there. The question is how do we implement that more widely.” The Future 🗣️“Library and archival data are the original datasets, and with them comes a value system of authenticity and provenance that AI should inherit.” The Takeaway 🗣️ “AI chatbot interfaces will be how people interface with knowledge—and if we don’t engage with them, our culture risks becoming invisible." 📌 About Our Guests Harry Verwayen | Europeana 🌐 linkedin.com/in/harryverwayen 🌐 https://www.europeana.eu/en Europeana is a digital platform that provides access to millions of cultural heritage items from museums, galleries, libraries, and archives across Europe. It promotes the sharing and reuse of Europe’s cultural collections for education, research, and creativity. #AI #artificialintelligence #generativeAI

    Humans of AI | Harry Verwayen (Europeana) - Connecting Culture Across Borders
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In Humans of AI, information labs brings to life the intersection of artificial intelligence and cultural heritage. Across a series of punchy, story-driven video capsules, we meet the projects and people who are redefining how we read, remember, and reimagine our shared memory. This isn’t AI as hype — it’s AI as heritage in motion.

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