Tools and Frameworks / Document analysis, transcription, and labeling

• Coconut Libtool – web-based textual analysis tool designed to assist social scientists, librarians, or anyone in data analysis

Policies and recommendations / Frameworks

• LC Labs Artificial Intelligence Planning Framework – US Library of Congress planning framework for responsible exploration and adoption of AI
  • French translation: Planification de projets IA dans les GLAM (⭐0)

Conferences and Workshops / Past Conferences and Workshops

• Fantastic Futures 2024 – Oct. 15–18 at The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) in Canberra, Australia.

Publications and News Sources / Journals and Magazines

• Critical AI

Publications and News Sources / News sources

• ARL Day in Review

Tools and Frameworks / Document analysis, transcription, and labeling

• Arkindex – open-source platform for managing & processing collections of digitized documents

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)

Learning Resources / Introductions to AI

• Codecademy AI Courses – many topics; some lessons are free, some are for-fee

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

• Full-text search for "handwritten text recognition"

• Full-text search for "optical text recognition"

• Datasets tagged "summarization"

• Datasets tagged "feature extraction"

• Datasets tagged "image classification"

• Datasets tagged "video classification"

• Datasets tagged "text classification"

• Datasets tagged "audio classification"

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

Datasets / Datasets available elsewhere

• Open data collections from the National Library of Scotland

Learning Resources / Other "awesome" lists in AI and ML

• Awesome LLM (⭐16k)

Learning Resources / Introductions to AI

• Introduction to AI for GLAM – by Library Carpentries

Learning Resources / Computer vision

• Computer Vision for Heritage Collections – French-language 2 hr workshop designed to introduce computer vision applications to cultural heritage professionals

Learning Resources / Other "awesome" lists in AI and ML

• Awesome Deep Learning (⭐23k)

• Awesome Deep Learning Resources (⭐1.7k)

• Awesome Deep Vision (⭐11k)

• Awesome Document Understanding (⭐1.2k)

• Awesome Image Classification (⭐2.8k)

• Awesome Machine Learning (⭐64k)

• Awesome Machine Learning & Deep Learning Tutorials (⭐15k)

• Awesome Natural Language Generation (⭐449)

• Awesome NLP (⭐16k)

• Awesome Production Machine Learning (⭐17k)

• Awesome Software Engineering for Machine Learning (⭐1.2k)

• Awesome Visual Transformer (⭐3.3k)

• Awesome XAI (⭐126)

Datasets / Datasets available elsewhere

• HTR datasets in Zenodo – subject search in Zenodo

Conferences and Workshops / Upcoming Conferences and Workshops

• BitCurator Forum – Mar. 19–22 virtual event on digital forensics, digital archives, and related digital analysis workflows

• 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.

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

Publications and News Sources / Journals and Magazines

• AI & Society

• Archival Science

• Big Data & Society

• Digital Humanities Quarterly

• Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

• Journal of Cultural Analytics

• Journal of Documentation

• Journal of Open Humanities Data

• Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

• Library Hi Tech

• Literary and Linguistic Computing

• Social Science Computer Review

• World Digital Libraries – An International Journal

Learning Resources / Introductions to AI

• Elements of AI – free course by MinnaLearn & University of Helsinki

• AI Guide by the AI Pedagogy Project – collection of materials by metaLAB

• Slides from FF23 workshop on Intro to AI for GLAM and shared notes

• Machine Learning 101 – by Jason Mayes from Google

• A Collection of AI Demos to Discover and Explore

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

Learning Resources / Natural language processing

• A Code-First Introduction to NLP – by Rachel Thomas of fast.ai

• NLP course and associated GitHub repo (⭐9.6k) – by Elena Voita

• NLP accelerated class – by Machine Learning University

• Overview of deep learning techniques applied to NLP (2018)

• Deep Learning for NLP – from Machine Learning Mastery

• Hands-on NLTK Tutorial (⭐539)

• NLP in Python - Quickstart Guide (⭐564)

• Deep Learning for NLP With Pytorch

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

• Understanding LLMs – A Transformative Reading List

• Large Language Model Course (⭐34k)

Learning Resources / Other "awesome" lists in AI and ML

• Awesome Computer Vision (⭐20k)

• Awesome Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing (NLP) (⭐1.3k)

• Awesome Generative AI (⭐5.2k)

• Awesome Jupyter GLAM (⭐19)

• The NLP Index

Tools and Frameworks / Document analysis, transcription, and labeling

• Callico – open-source web platform for document annotation

• Distributed Annotation 'n' Enrichment (DANE) (⭐3) – compute task assignment & file storage for automatic annotation of content (CLARIAH, Norway)

• HTRFLOW demo and associated GitHub repo (⭐24) – 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)

• Surya (⭐9.1k) – multilingual document OCR toolkit with line-level text detection

• 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 (⭐17) – 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 (⭐36) – 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)

• VGG Text Search (VTS) Engine – search for text strings over a user-defined image set

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) (⭐109) – transformer model for Norwegian and Nordic languages (National Library of Norway)

• Swedish BERT (⭐137) – BERT model for the Swedish language (Royal Library of Sweden)

• Visual AI – open-world interpretable visual transformer (UK)

Datasets / Datasets available elsewhere

• Gensim datasets (⭐965) – repository of datasets for unstructured text processing

• HTR-United – datasets for training transcription or segmentation models

• Kaggle datasets

• nlp-datasets (⭐5.7k) – 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

• Living with Machines – Turing Institute & British Library

• Machine Learning with Archive Collections

• Vatican Manuscripts – machine transcription in the Vatican Secret Archive

Policies and recommendations / Statements by organizations and government bodies

• ACM TechBrief on Generative AI, by the ACM Technology Policy Council

• Canadian Government Principles for responsible, trustworthy and privacy-protective generative AI technologies

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

• What ethics do I need to consider when using AI? – blog posting by Livi Adu, Nov. 2023

Conferences and Workshops / Upcoming Conferences and Workshops

• International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES) 2024 – Sep. 16–20 in Ghent & Flanders, Belgium.

Publications and News Sources / Journals and Magazines

• AI Magazine

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

Publications and News Sources / Journals and Magazines

• International Journal on Digital Libraries

• Journal of Academic Librarianship

• Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

• Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage

• Library Resources & Technical Services

Learning Resources / Generative AI

• The Map Of Transformers

• 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.

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.)

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

• IFLA Statement on Libraries and Artificial Intelligence

• US Government Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence

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.

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.