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AI Records Management: IT Implementation Guide
Version 1.2 | June 2026 A companion to the AI Records Management Implementation Guide (v1.1) and the AI Records Management Governance Guide....
Implementing AI in Records Management
This guide provides a structured, evidence-informed framework for implementing artificial intelligence (AI) in records management and archiv...
What the EU AI Act Means for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums
The Archive of the Future Is Not a Building. It Is Not Even a Database.
A vision for the archive of the future: self-aware holdings, conversational discovery, a federated memory web, hyper-provenance, immersive a...
Why Heratio's Digital Twin Concept Matters for GLAM and Heritage
Most heritage systems still treat the digital as a passive copy. The Heratio digital twin is an authoritative, connected digital counterpart...
Your Digital Assets Are More Valuable Than You Think. Are You Managing Them That Way?
Cultural institutions sit on vast, irreplaceable digital collections, yet many still manage them with shared drives and spreadsheets. Why pr...
When hybrid search loses to keyword-only: two fixable defects in GLAM retrieval
We built a four-strategy hybrid retrieval pipeline in Heratio and it scored worse than keyword-only. Here is the diagnostic, the two defects...
Perfect Is the Enemy of Accessible: Archives in the Age of AI-Assisted Processing
Archival orthodoxy says describe perfectly before providing access. With million-page backlogs, that means no access for the foreseeable fut...