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Siham Alaoui

Siham Alaoui is an Assistant Professor in information management at Université Laval. She serves at the head of the undergraduate programs of information management at the same university. She holds a PhD in archival science and public communication (2024, Université Laval, Québec, Canada), a master's degree in Information Science (obtained in 2015 from the University of Montreal), and a bachelor's degree in Information Science (obtained in 2013 from the School of Information Science, Morocco). She is interested in digital documentary mediation (information and data management) and their deployment in universities, governments, and non-profit organizations. She is the author of several scientific and professional articles published in specialized journals in information science (e.g. Archives, Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, Documentation et Bibliothèques, Comma, Records management journal). She has also given many communications in conferences and symposia.

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Towards Augmented Participatory Archives: What Role for Citizens’ Collective Intelligence in the Age of AI?

by Siham Alaoui June 13, 2026 0

Citizens act as co-creators who should collaborate with archivists to enrich AI-generated archival descriptions, by highlighting the symbolic and emotional aspects... Read more.