Making the Media S5E02: AI and Archives – The Human Touch
S5E02: AI and Archives – the Human Touch
The role of the archivist may be changing with the advent of AI-enabled services to enrich metadata, but there must be human oversight to ensure the accuracy of data. That’s the view of leading library and media management expert, Kathey Battrick.
IIn the episode, she also outlines the importance of identifying use cases where AI-enhanced metadata can help users find what they need, and her desire for more work to be done in the field of large language models (LLMs) to support the Arabic language.
Listen to Hear:
- How the role of archivists is evolving but remains crucial.
- The way AI is being used to help creative teams find what they need faster and more efficiently.
- The need for human supervision of AI-generated metadata to avoid challenges of “AI hallucinations.”
Our Guests This Episode
Our Guest This Episode
Kathey Battrick
Kathey Battrick joined Asharq News in 2019 as a senior manager in the library and media management department. She is responsible for setting up and leading the media library at Asharq, overseeing the management, cataloguing, AI indexing, and preservation of the organization's valuable production assets and archive.
She has a wealth of experience in media and archive management and previously worked as the director of operations for ITN Source, the archive and clips sales arm of ITN News in London, where she led projects such as the digitization of ITN's archive and managed the archive operations team.
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We human-supervise the AI-generated content. So, the role of our archivists or news librarians as we call them here is to still create some manual cuts, but their role also is to supervise what the AI services are providing us with and correcting and fine tuning the metadata we get back.
Kathey Battrick, Asharq News, Senior Manager, Library and Media Management
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