In celebration of Arab Document Day, which falls on October 17th each year, the Juma Al Majid Center for Culture and Heritage in Dubai organized a virtual lecture on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, entitled “Artificial Intelligence and the Challenges of Document and Archive Management: A Look at Emerging, Sustainable, Developed, and Updated Tasks.” The lecture was presented by Dr. Taha Mohammed Nour Abu Al-Khair, the Center’s Scientific Supervisor of Documents and Archives, and was attended by a select group of specialists in the field.
The lecture aimed to explore the impact of artificial intelligence on document and archive management, the classification of various tasks, and to analyze the most prominent challenges while highlighting the future skills required by professionals in this field.
The lecturer addressed the profound transformations brought about by artificial intelligence in the areas of document and archive management, presenting a detailed comparison between traditional and digital management, and between traditional and intelligent automation in this sector. It also showed the impact of artificial intelligence in reshaping the elements of management and its modern approaches, and classified the tasks in document and archive management into four categories: vanishing, sustainable, developed, and updated, according to their relationship with artificial intelligence.
