π 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.
π About Our Guests
Matthias Priem & Bart Magnus | meemoo
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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.
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