08/07/2026
Hello my name is Francis Jeune, a Senior Graphic Design Student at Florida Atlantic University. This summer, I will be working with my SURF mentor and Graphic Design Professor, Mehrdad Sedaghat Baghbani, from FAU’s Department of Visual Arts and Art History on a SURF research project focused on creating and testing culturally responsive metadata using FAU’s art, design, and library collections as case studies. We will examine preservation-aware documentation practices and explore how we may utilize these method for AI development. Our goal is to develop ethical and inclusive approaches to the documentation of visual materials that accurately identify, organize, and describe the cultural knowledge, origins, and context of artworks and designs that will be translated into data for computational systems.
My role is to conduct analyses of cultural and visual artifacts and develop metadata that will be tested to account for authorship, context, origin. Through this research, we hope to contribute to better documentation frameworks that support the development of more inclusive and ethical AI systems that represents a broader range of cultures and perspectives of the world.
