π 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.
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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.
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