🚀 AI and Government Records: New blog + slides from the LUSTRE GLOW Workshop!
Keynotes: Prof. Victoria Lemieux (UBC 🇨🇦) & David Canning MBE (Cabinet Office 🇬🇧).
🔗 Blog: lustre-network.net/lustre-glow-...
🔗 Slides: lustre-network.net/event/lustre...
#AI #GovTech #DigitalArchives
🚨 I am hiring a Research Associate for the GLOW project! 🧠📂
💼 AI + government archives
📍 16 hours/ week, mostly online with occasional on-site work
📝 Qualitative research & stakeholder engagement
📅 Apply by 30 July!
🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS987/r...
#AcademicJobs #DigitalHumanities #AI #Archives
📢 Exciting news for cultural heritage professionals! "Navigating AI for Cultural Heritage Organisations," co-edited by our very own @lisejaillant.bsky.social, is now available! This essential guide explores how #AI is reshaping libraries, archives, & museums.
🚀 Excited to give a plenary at the "AI Meets Humanities & Social Sciences" conference in Vienna 🇦🇹!
✨ Talk: “Unlocking the Creative Potential of Archives: The Power of AI-Human Collaboration”
📅 June 23, 2025
📍 Austrian Academy of Sciences
Learn more: www.oeaw.ac.at/conference/a...
#AI #Archives
This is a key output of the AEOLIAN project funded by the AHRC in the UK and the National Endowment for the Humanities in the US.
🌟 New Release!
Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Organisations is here! 🚀 Explore AI’s role in archives, libraries, & museums with insights from top experts.
📖 Available #OpenAccess: uclpress.co.uk/AIHeritage
#AI #CulturalHeritage
Closing the session: AI and Colonial Archives: A Historian’s View
Jean Smith – King’s College London
After panel discussion, our last session: Session 4: Ethical Frameworks, AI and Archives
Colonial Photographs at The National Archives UK
Chloe Lee & Elizabeth Haines – The National Archives UK
Following that: Reflexive Access: Personal Archives, Colonial Images and Ethical AI
Briony Widdis – Queen’s University Belfast
Session 3: Archives, Collaborative Practice and Access
Giving Open Access to Colonial Photographic Collections: A Glimpse at InVisu’s Experience
Bulle Tuil Leonetti – InVisu (CNRS/INHA)
Continuing with: De-biasing Digital Collections through Community Participation and AI
Sofie Taes – KU Leuven
Up next: ECPAD Proposal: Military Archives and Artificial Intelligence: Managing the Sensitivity of Yesterday’s Images with Tomorrow’s Tools
Véronique Pontillon-Valedon & Loreleï Riahi Castillo – ECPAD
Moving to Session 2: AI, Sensitivity and Access
Imperial Preference: Sustainable Sensitivity Appraisal using AI and its Preservation
Geoffrey Browell & Manuela Pallotto Strickland – King’s College London
Coming up: Addressing Biased and Outdated Language in the Colonial Collections of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Africa Museum)
Dieter Van Hassel & Agata Dierick – Royal Museum for Central Africa
Next: Preserving and Showing Photographs Taken in a Colonial Context: The Case of the Musée de l’Armée’s Collections
Presenter: Lucie Moriceau-Chastagner – Musée de l’Armée
Session 1: Reinterpreting Colonial Archives in GLAM Collections
Introducing the National Museum of the Royal Navy’s Collection: Colonial Links and AI
Amy Adams & Clare Hunt – National Museum of the Royal Navy
GENIAC Workshop – Generative AI for Colonial Archival Images – is now underway at IWM London (13 May, 09:15–16:00).
A British Academy-funded event on ethical AI, metadata challenges & co-design with source communities.
#Archives #DigitalHumanities
✅ Building trustworthy AI solutions: integrating artificial intelligence literacy into records management and archival systems
Richard Arias Hernández & Moisés Rockembach
✅ AI and the visualisation needs of researchers using email archives
Peter Green @lgreenpd.bsky.social
✅ Data analysis and network visualisation as tools for curating hybrid correspondence archives
Callum McKean & Cameron Randall
✅ An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability
Matthew A. Vetter, Jialei Jiang & Zachary J. McDowell
✅ AI to review government records: new work to unlock historically significant digital records
David Canning & Lise Jaillant
✅ Machine learning methods for isolating indigenous language catalog descriptions
Yi Liu, Carrie Heitman, Leen-Kiat Soh & Peter Whiteley
✅ How can we improve the diversity of archival collections with AI? Opportunities, risks, and solutions
Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social, Olivia Mitchell, Eric Ewoh-Opu & Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja @maribelhu.bsky.social
✅ Developing computer vision and machine learning strategies to unlock government-created records
Greg Jansen & Richard Marciano
✅ Large Language Models to make museum archive collections more accessible
Manon Reusens, Amy Adams & Bart Baesens
✅ Conceptualising methodological diversity among born-digital users: insights from the garbage can model
Adam Nix,Stephanie Decker & David A. Kirsch
✅ Copyright, Privacy, and Public Access in News Archives: a proof of concept on the Boston Globe photograph morgue
Giulia Taurino, Sarah Sweeney, Drew Facklam & David A. Smith
✅Explainable AI, LLM, and digitized archival cultural heritage: a case study of the Grand Ducal Archive of the Medici
Gabor Mihaly Toth, Richard Albrecht & Cedric Pruski
✅ Can AI help make California police policy human centered?
Catherine Nicole Coleman, Jiaju Liu & Chloe Kathryn Williams
