🔍 In this episode of Humans of AI, Kai Jauslin, interaction designer and AI developer, discusses how his “Websites for Netherland” project turned web archives into interactive public experiences, evolving from a Swiss National Library installation into an open-source, Europe-wide initiative with Internet Archive Europe, using AI to extract metadata, translate content, and enable conversational search.

He also addresses legal and data-access challenges in public institutions and envisions expanding the project internationally, improving metadata, and enhancing voice interaction. His key takeaway: explore and “play” with open data to create engaging, human-centered cultural experiences.

📌 HoAI Highlights

⏲️[00:00] Intro

⏲️[00:35] The Spark

⏲️[06:11] The Impact

⏲️[10:05] The Challenge

⏲️[14:15] The Future

⏲️[18:36] The Takeaway

The Spark

🗣️“I like to work closely with institutions… it’s a joint process, and that’s what makes it special.”

The Impact

🗣️ “AI acted as a translator between archived images and user queries, creating a common ground that made search and exploration possible.”

The Challenge

🗣️ “Public institutions face legal and access challenges that limit how open data can be used, creating a gap between what corporations and small organizations can do with AI.”

The Future

🗣️“AI enables us to quickly build specific, playful applications with open data, merging coding and design in ways that were previously too costly or complex.”

The Takeaway

🗣️ “Go and play with the data—use open archives as a playground to explore, experiment, and build your own vision.”

📌 About Our Guests

Kai Jauslin | Webarchiving Display

🌐 linkedin.com/in/kjauslin
🌐 https://nextension.com/

🌐 https://webarchiving.internetarchive.eu/

The Webarchiving Display project turns archived websites into interactive, navigable visualizations, letting the public explore historical web content through AI-enhanced search and voice interaction.

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