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Mar 26, 2024
Policies and recommendations / Surveys of policies and recommendations
- Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives - IMLS funded project to produce tools and strategies that support responsible use of AI in the field (2022-2025)
Mar 14, 2024
Learning Resources / Introductions to AI
- Codecademy AI Courses – many topics; some lessons are free, some are for-fee
Mar 05, 2024
Tools and Frameworks / Audio and video analysis, transcription, and labeling
- ELAN – addS textual annotations to audio and/or video recordings (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands)
Datasets / Datasets available on Hugging Face
Projects, Initiatives, and Case Studies / Select individual projects
- Argilla prompt-collective – crowdsourcing effort to rank 50,000 prompts, on Hugging Face
- BigLAM – BigScience Libraries, Archives and Museums on Hugging Face
- Nasjonalbiblioteket AI Lab – National Library of Norway on Hugging Face
- KBLab – National Library of Sweden on Hugging Face
- PleIAs – French organization training LLMs with an open science approach
Feb 23, 2024
Datasets / Datasets available elsewhere
Feb 17, 2024
Learning Resources / Other "awesome" lists in AI and ML
Feb 10, 2024
Learning Resources / Computer vision
- Computer Vision for Heritage Collections – French-language 2 hr workshop designed to introduce computer vision applications to cultural heritage professionals
Conferences and Workshops / Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
- BitCurator Forum – Mar. 19–22 virtual event on digital forensics, digital archives, and related digital analysis workflows
Feb 07, 2024
Learning Resources / Other "awesome" lists in AI and ML
Feb 06, 2024
Learning Resources / Introductions to AI
- Introduction to AI for GLAM – by Library Carpentries
Datasets / Datasets available elsewhere
- HTR datasets in Zenodo – subject search in Zenodo
Conferences and Workshops / Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
- Digital Library Federation (DLF) 2024 Forum – Jul. 29–31 at Michigan State U., East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
- International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) 2024 – Aug. 30–Sep. 4 in Athens, Greece.
Jan 25, 2024
Learning Resources / Generative AI
- What are large language models (LLMs)? – (YouTube) by Google for Developers
- Generative AI for Everyone – free Coursera course by Andrew Ng
- What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? – by Stephen Wolfram
Jan 24, 2024
Journals and Magazines / Past Conferences and Workshops
Jan 23, 2024
Journals and Magazines / Past Conferences and Workshops
Jan 20, 2024
Tools and Frameworks / Document analysis, transcription, and labeling
- Callico – open-source web platform for document annotation
- Distributed Annotation 'n' Enrichment (DANE) (⭐2) – compute task assignment & file storage for automatic annotation of content (CLARIAH, Norway)
- HTRFLOW demo and associated GitHub repo (⭐23) – explore AI models for Handwritten Text Recogntion (Swedish National Archives)
- Label Studio – data labeling platform to fine-tune LLMs, prepare training data, or validate AI models
- OCR correction – OCR correction tools (Bibliothèque nationale, Luxembourg)
- Text models from the National Library of Sweden – available on Hugging Face
- Transkribus – transcription, recognition, & searching of historical documents
Tools and Frameworks / Audio and video analysis, transcription, and labeling
- Acoustic models from the National Library of Sweden – available on Hugging Face
- Audiovisual Metadata Platform (AMP) – generation of metadata for discovery & use of digital audio & video collections (Indiana U., USA)
- CAMPI – Computer-Aided Metadata Generation for Photo archives Initiative (Carnegie Mellonw U., USA)
- inaFaceAnalyzer (⭐16) – Python toolbox for face-based description of gender representation in media (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, France)
- Newspaper Navigator – explore visual & textual content in the Chronicling America digitized newspaper collection (Library of Congress, USA)
- Oodi – virtual information assistant (Helsinki Central Library)
- ReTV – video analysis & summarization (Modul Univesrity, Austria)
Tools and Frameworks / Indexing and classification
- Annif and associated tutorial (⭐33) – tool for automated subject indexing and classification (National Library of Finland)
Tools and Frameworks / Search and retrieval
- GallicaPix – retrieval of heritage images (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
- GallicaSNOOP – framework for large-scale content-based image retrieval (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
- Maken Similarity Service – tools for alternative reading & finding similar photographs (National Library of Norway)
- Semantic search for Nasjonalmuseet’s online collection – open beta test (National Museum of Norway)
Tools and Frameworks / Applications of Transformers, LLMs, and GPT
- BERTopic – topic modeling technique that leverages Transformers and c-TF-IDF
- Chatbot for Luxembourgish newspapers – uses ChatGPT and understands French, German and English (Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg)
- Norwegian Transformer Model (NoTraM) (⭐105) – transformer model for Norwegian and Nordic languages (National Library of Norway)
- Swedish BERT (⭐136) – BERT model for the Swedish language (Royal Library of Sweden)
- Visual AI – open-world interpretable visual transformer (UK)
Datasets / Datasets available elsewhere
- Gensim datasets (⭐932) – repository of datasets for unstructured text processing
- HTR-United – datasets for training transcription or segmentation models
- nlp-datasets (⭐5.6k) – free/public domain datasets with text data for use in NLP
- Open Library data dumps – from the Internet Archive
- Registry of Open Data on AWS – datasets tagged by topic
Projects, Initiatives, and Case Studies / Project lists & directories
- List of Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiatives in museums – compiled in 2021 by Elena Villaespesa, Oonagh Murphy and Kate Nadel for the Museums+AI Network project.
- Projects in AI Registry (PAIR) – registry of AI projects in higher education (U. Oklahoma Libraries, USA)
Projects, Initiatives, and Case Studies / Select individual projects
- Vatican Manuscripts – machine transcription in the Vatican Secret Archive
Policies and recommendations / Statements by organizations and government bodies
Policies and recommendations / Surveys of policies and recommendations
- A cluster analysis of national AI strategies – Brookings Institute analysis of different countries’ national AI strategies, Dec. 2023
- A principled governance for emerging AI regimes: lessons from China, the European Union, and the United States by R. B. L. Dixon in AI and Ethics, 3, 793–810, 2023
- AI Governance Alliance: Briefing Paper Series – by the World Economic Forum, Jan. 2024
- AI policies across the globe: Implications and recommendations for libraries by L. S. Lo in IFLA Journal, 49(4), 645–649, 2023
- Principled Artificial Intelligence: Mapping Consensus in Ethical and Rights-Based Approaches to Principles for AI by Fjeld et al, Berkman Klein Center Research Publication No. 2020-1, 2020
Jan 19, 2024
Learning Resources / Natural language processing
- NLP course and associated GitHub repo (⭐9.4k) – by Elena Voita
- NLP accelerated class – by Machine Learning University
- Deep Learning for NLP – from Machine Learning Mastery
Learning Resources / Generative AI
- A Very Gentle Introduction to LLMs without the Hype – by Mark Riedl
- A brief introduction to GenAI – by U. Michigan MIDAS
Jan 18, 2024
Learning Resources / Introductions to AI
- Elements of AI – free course by MinnaLearn & University of Helsinki
- Machine Learning 101 – by Jason Mayes from Google
Learning Resources / Natural language processing
- A Code-First Introduction to NLP – by Rachel Thomas of fast.ai
Learning Resources / Generative AI
Learning Resources / Other "awesome" lists in AI and ML
Tools and Frameworks / Document analysis, transcription, and labeling
- Surya (⭐5.1k) – multilingual document OCR toolkit with line-level text detection
Projects, Initiatives, and Case Studies / Select individual projects
- Living with Machines – Turing Institute & British Library
Jan 17, 2024
Learning Resources / Introductions to AI
- AI Guide by the AI Pedagogy Project – collection of materials by metaLAB
Learning Resources / Computer vision
- A Gentle Introduction to Computer Vision – from Machine Learning Mastery
- Computer Vision for the Humanities: An Introduction to Deep Learning for Image Classification – two-part intro by the Programming Historian
Tools and Frameworks / Search and retrieval
- VGG Text Search (VTS) Engine – search for text strings over a user-defined image set
Policies and recommendations / Surveys of policies and recommendations
- What ethics do I need to consider when using AI? – blog posting by Livi Adu, Nov. 2023
Journals and Magazines / Past Conferences and Workshops
Jan 16, 2024
Conferences and Workshops / Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
- International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES) 2024 – Sep. 16–20 in Ghent & Flanders, Belgium.
- CIDOC 2024 & Frontiers of knowledge, museums, documentation, and linked data – Nov. 11–15 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Jan 12, 2024
Journals and Magazines / Past Conferences and Workshops
Jan 11, 2024
Tools and Frameworks / Audio and video analysis, transcription, and labeling
- Annotorious – JavaScript image annotation library
- VGG Image Annotator – manual annotation software for image, audio and video
Projects, Initiatives, and Case Studies / Project lists & directories
- Inventory of NARA Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use Cases - the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)'s inventory of AI use cases
Dec 18, 2023
Learning Resources / Generative AI
- The Illustrated Transformer, a visual introduction to transformers
- Introduction to Generative AI, by Google
- Generative AI for Beginners - A Course, by Microsoft
- A Generative AI Primer, by the UK's National Centre for AI
Learning Resources / AI in galleries, libraries, archives and museums
- The CENL "AI in Libraries" network group is also organizing webinars on AI implementation in GLAM.
Dec 13, 2023
Learning Resources / Introductions to AI
- DeepLearning.AI Short Courses, a free courses from a platform created by Andrew Ng
- Introduction to Hugging Face, a free course by Codecademy
Learning Resources / AI in galleries, libraries, archives and museums
- The AI4LAM YouTube channel has introductory presentations on many topics
Policies and recommendations / Frameworks
- A Framework for U.S. AI Governance: Creating a Safe and Thriving AI Sector white paper by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Dec. 11, 2023. (See also related article in MIT News.)
Dec 08, 2023
Policies and recommendations / Statements by organizations and government bodies
Policies and recommendations / Frameworks
- A Comprehensive AI Policy Education Framework for University Teaching and Learning by C. K. Y. Chan in International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 20(38), 2023.
Dec 07, 2023
Learning Resources / Introductions to AI
- Introduction to Deep Learning, by Sebastian Raschka
- Dive into Deep Learning, by Zhang et al.
Policies and recommendations / Statements by organizations and government bodies
Nov 27, 2023
Conferences and Workshops / Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
- IIPC General Assembly & Web Archiving Conference – Apr. 24–26 at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France.
- Fantastic Futures 2024 – Oct. 16–18 at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), Canberra, Australia.
Conferences and Workshops / Past Conferences and Workshops
- ai4Libraries Conference – Oct. 19 virtual event hosted by Georgia Tech Library, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- Fantastic Futures 2018 – Dec. 5 at the National Library of Norway, Oslo, Norway.
- Fantastic Futures 2019 – Dec. 4–6 at Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
- Fantastic Futures 2021 – Dec. 8–10 at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France.
- Fantastic Futures 2022 – Nov. 30–Dec. 2 virtual event hosted by the British Library, London, England.
- Fantastic Futures 2023 – Nov. 15–17 at Internet Archive Canada Headquarters, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.