The Ghost in the Metadata: The Evolving, Endangered Role of the Human Librarian in the Age of AI-Driven DAM
Executive Overview For as long as Digital Asset Management (DAM) has existed as a formal discipline, a dedicated class of professionals has sat quietly behind graphical user interfaces (GUIs), performing the unglamorous, foundational work of making digital assets findable. These information architects, digital librarians, taxonomists, and metadata specialists have spent decades tagging, describing, structuring, and…