The Ghost in the GUI: The Evolution, Displacement, and Hidden Labor of DAM Librarians in the Age of AI
Executive Overview For as long as Digital Asset Management (DAM) has existed as a formal discipline, a critical human element has anchored its success. Behind every intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), every seamless search query, and every structured taxonomy sits a human professional performing the quiet, often unglamorous labor of making assets findable. Librarians, taxonomists,…