This was always kind of my sense of how museums worked, but I definitely learned some things from it. (I am not and have never been a museum professional.)
It reads like museums today are archives twenty years ago and libraries seventy years ago.
Everything that is wrong in museums starts with wall labels
It is difficult to separate the issues and questions that contemporary machine-learning and “artificial intelligence” technologies raise in the context of museum without addressing the long history of past attempts to make collections “digital” and how those efforts have played out organizationally over the years. So many of those issues end up being made manifest in the challenges surrounding the production of wall labels and this talk will discuss some inconvenient truths (and opportunities) about museums and computing that AI surfaces.
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