Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Friday, 05/Dec/2025 | ||
| 8:30am - 9:00am |
Coffee/tea break Location: Knowledge Centre bar |
Registration Location: Knowledge Centre reception |
| 9:00am - 10:00am |
LP03: Long papers Location: Pigott Theatre (Auditorium) Chair: Neil Fitzgerald Developing Archival AI chatbots: risks, benefits, and future directions 9:30am - 10:00am Old system, new tricks; Using AI to Improve AV Metadata in a Legacy System |
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| 9:00am - 5:00pm |
Friday poster session: Friday poster session Location: Brontë The BL Labs Collider – Feedback on the Labs/Data.bl.uk Pilot 2 SuperMVP Vision AI Literacy is Information Literacy: Teaching STEM students and research labs about generative AI Ethical Considerations Around Machine Learning-Engaged Online Participatory Research Fast, cheap, and good? Building an image recognition prototype in the AI era Reimagining Museum Work: How Museums Respond to AI’s Impact on Workforce, Skills and Equitable Collaboration Transforming Record Appraisal at NAS with AI: A Proof-of-Concept Exploration AI Products: A Licence Review Tool Gallica Images - Applying AI and UX to vast iconographic collections Descriptive Debt and AI: Rethinking the Future of Archival Processing “AI pedagogy and new methods for humanities scholars: A reflective case study” |
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| 10:00am - 11:00am |
SP03: Short papers Location: Pigott Theatre (Auditorium) Chair: Ines Vodopivec Hacking AI chatbots for critical AI literacy in the library 10:15am - 10:30am Recognising Hands, Recognising Processes - Benchmarking eXplainable Automated Text Recognition (X-ATR) for Libraries 10:30am - 10:45am CultureQuest: Deploying AI-powered Characters in Museum Spaces to Reimagine Visitor Engagement 10:45am - 11:00am Copyright compliant LLMs? Exploring constrained LLM-training with derived text formats |
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| 11:00am - 11:30am |
Coffee/tea break Location: Knowledge Centre bar |
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| 11:30am - 1:00pm |
SP04: Short papers Location: Pigott Theatre (Auditorium) Chair: Mia Ridge 'Distrusting, techno-pessimistic and conservative'. National Libraries and the Politics of AI Training Data 11:45am - 12:00pm AInTheCards: Surfacing Environmental and Cultural History from Observational Records via VLMs and a Web-Based Review Interface 12:00pm - 12:15pm From Microfilm to Metadata: AI-Powered Indexing of 139 Years of a Student Newspaper 12:15pm - 12:30pm Wildflowers as Benchmarks: Creating a LAM-Specific LLM Evaluation Using Historical Botanical Text 12:30pm - 12:45pm Unlocking rare collections in Trove |
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| 1:00pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch Location: Knowledge Centre bar |
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| 2:00pm - 3:00pm |
SP05: Short papers Location: Pigott Theatre (Auditorium) Chair: Abbey Potter Errare Machina Est? The Impact of Errors in Large-Scale AI-Based Information Extraction from Archival Documents 2:15pm - 2:30pm Collections Explorer: Building a User-Centered, AI-Driven Discovery Platform at Harvard Library 2:30pm - 2:45pm Tailor-made or ready-to-wear? The challenge of reusing computer vision models and processing workflows 2:45pm - 3:00pm Collaborative AI for Cultural Heritage: Building Trust and Literacy through Community and Institutional Partnerships |
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| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
LT02: Lightning talks Location: Pigott Theatre (Auditorium) Chair: Tom Cramer Evaluation Everywhere, But Not All At Once 3:05pm - 3:10pm Unlocking Transcultural Modernist Artists’ Networks with Natural Language Processing 3:10pm - 3:15pm Refactoring the IIIF Artificial Intelligence Community 3:15pm - 3:20pm Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) for Trustworthy Generative AI (GenAI) 3:20pm - 3:25pm NHMxDCMS AI Pilots: Rapidly prototyping AI for GLAM 3:25pm - 3:30pm AI as Assistive Technology in Museums: Rethinking AI Design Through Disability-Led Innovation |
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Coffee/tea break Location: Knowledge Centre bar |
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| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
KNC: Keynote: 'What Are We Looking At : Massive Models and Minimal Description' and close Location: Pigott Theatre (Auditorium) Chair: Mia Ridge |
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