Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview |
| 8:30am - 9:00am |
Coffee/tea break Location: Knowledge Centre bar |
Registration Location: Knowledge Centre reception |
| 9:00am - 10:00am |
WKN: Welcome and keynote 'Just enough AI?' Location: Pigott Theatre (Auditorium) Chair: Neil Fitzgerald Chair: Mia Ridge |
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| 9:00am - 5:00pm |
Thursday poster session: Thursday poster session Location: Brontë From Annotation to Insight: Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning for Historical Archives in HAICu WP2 AI Tools for Digital Libraries: Enhancing User Experience and Trust Making Meaningful Connections: How Wellcome Collection Has Used Graph Technology to Aid Collections Discovery UK Web Archive Data: Opportunities for the AI Community Responsible AI Strategies Quantitatively Assessing the Applicability of LLM's to Metadata Creation and Enrichment Case Studies in Responsible AI: Generative Approaches to Genealogy and Historical Newspaper Archives AI-Powered Subject Indexing in the Archives – Piloting Finto AI at the Finnish Literature Society The fifth law of Ranganathan and implications for information science in artificial intelligence-driven world: addressing the anxieties of the AI in developing countries. |
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| 10:00am - 11:00am |
LP01: Long papers Location: Pigott Theatre (Auditorium) Chair: Mia Ridge In bed with AI: the library learnings from working with big tech 10:30am - 11:00am Case study of compar:IA: Creating (international) language data commons while raising awareness |
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| 11:00am - 11:30am |
Coffee/tea break Location: Knowledge Centre bar |
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| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
LP02: Long papers Location: Pigott Theatre (Auditorium) Chair: Neil Fitzgerald Text on Maps: From Collection Discovery to Research Data 12:00pm - 12:30pm Proof Of Concept: AI to enhance the value of The National Archives, and support UK Government Appraisal and Selection decisions at scale |
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| 12:30pm - 1:00pm |
SP01: Short Papers Location: Pigott Theatre (Auditorium) Chair: Neil Fitzgerald Beyond the Single Voice: Co-Creating Knowledge with AI 12:45pm - 1:00pm Computational description: an end-to-end case study |
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| 1:00pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch Location: Knowledge Centre bar |
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| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
SP02: Short papers Location: Pigott Theatre (Auditorium) Chair: Rossitza Atanassova Connecting AI Models & Users to Yale Library Data 2:15pm - 2:30pm Autocat Cataloguing Assistant 2:30pm - 2:45pm Ordo - agentic AI for library workflows 2:45pm - 3:00pm The usage of hardware resources for automatic subject cataloguing at the German National Library – an analysis and outlook for future challenges 3:00pm - 3:15pm Surfacing and Tracing Contributors in Large Video Collections 3:15pm - 3:30pm Oxford English Dictionary: creating a useful, trustworthy AI search assistant |
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Coffee/tea break Location: Knowledge Centre bar |
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| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
LT01: Lightning talks Location: Pigott Theatre (Auditorium) Chair: Harry Lloyd Introducing the AI for Cultural Heritage Hub (ArCH) 4:05pm - 4:10pm Write it down! Fostering Responsible Reuse of Cultural Heritage Data with Interoperable Dataset Descriptions 4:10pm - 4:15pm Multimodal AI for visual book navigation: lessons learned implementing and evaluating image search for a large library collection 4:15pm - 4:20pm Crafting responsible AI afterlives: Co-designing a practical resource with the GLAM Sector 4:20pm - 4:25pm Challenges of Building a RAG System for Library Reference 4:25pm - 4:30pm AI-Based OCR for Slovene Heritage: A Comparative Study of Tools and Practices 4:30pm - 4:35pm Libraries as Research Engines: AI Agents for Discovery through Language, Inference, and Network Structure 4:35pm - 4:40pm Culture for AI: formulating an alignment 4:40pm - 4:45pm Building Bridges, Not Black Boxes: Integrating Generative AI and Linked Open Data for Cultural Heritage Futures 4:45pm - 4:50pm Intelligent Systems for Screen Archives: Between Cultural and Computational Value 4:50pm - 4:55pm Arctic Fish Skin and AI: Ecological Entanglements and the Future of Cultural Heritage Preservation 4:55pm - 5:00pm User-guided visualizations of multispectral data for recovering degraded notation |
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| 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
Reception: Evening reception Location: Terrace Restaurant |
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| 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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