Europeana Pro on “Exploring AI in the Cultural Heritage Sector”

With lowered barriers to access and the development of new practices for Artificial Intelligence (AI), it’s no surprise that AI-related activities in the cultural heritage sector are increasing.

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For Europeana, the potential that AI has for improving data-quality, a continuous pain point for collection users, could offer exciting opportunities. In the Europeana Strategy 2020 – 2025, AI is highlighted multiple times as a means to an end for data quality improvement. The plan states:

‘Manually improving the metadata quality of millions of records from different sources requires a huge amount of time and resources. The application of artificial intelligence tools and machine-learning networks for automatic enrichment, combined with human knowledge provided by domain experts, offers a remarkable opportunity for improving the quality of metadata.’

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