Reading 'What can we learn from the failure of digital projects?' by @biglittlethings.bsky.social https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/opinion/2025/05/what-can-we-learn-from-the-failure-of-digital-projects/

This quote stood out: 'Shifting from “digital as project” to “digital as organisational change” is essential for long-term success'

"Director of Artificial Intelligence and Ideas Adoption at the University of Manchester Library"
Ha oui, quand même; il y en a qui sont partis très loin...
#AI&Libraries #AI #libraries #BUs #JarvisSons #AI4LAM

In case you missed it, this post on 'The Critical Role of U.S. Federal Funding in Zooniverse' is a great overview of Zooniverse's contribution to participatory research infrastructure https://blog.zooniverse.org/2025/04/30/the-critical-role-of-u-s-federal-funding-in-zooniverse/

It's hard to get concrete information on how much energy, minerals and water AI uses, but this list of AI / machine learning models by energy usage is helpful https://huggingface.co/spaces/AIEnergyScore/Leaderboard https://huggingface.co/blog/sasha/announcing-ai-energy-score

'The Swedish National Archives makes one million handwritten documents searchable' https://riksarkivet.se/inlagg/riksarkivet-gor-en-miljon-handskrivna-dokument-sokbara - the Universal Viewer plus AI text transcription!

Congratulations to everyone at the Riksarkivet who worked so hard on this! #AI4LAM #UniversalViewer

Appel à communication journée thématique Humanités Numériques et Intelligence Artificielle (HNIA) qui se tiendra le 4 juillet 2025 à Dijon

#HNIA #PFIA2025 #HumanitésNumériques #AI4LAM #IA #AI
https://pfia2025.u-bourgogne.fr/journees/Humanit%c3%a9%20&%20IA/

This is good from JSTOR on their use of AI https://about.jstor.org/research-tool/

'Our use of technology must enhance that credibility, not undermine it.'
'We will listen closely and proceed cautiously.'

I'm looking forward to taking part in tomorrow evening's panel on 'AI for Library Metadata Development: Hopes and Anxieties' with Natalie Buda Smith and Leah Weinryb Grohsgal, chaired by Suzanne Paul https://www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/39581/

Some tix available, but only in-person in (the OG) Cambridge #AI4LAM

It's incredible how machine learning/AI tools have transformed what can be piloted in a cultural heritage data hackathon. The recent AI4Culture hackathon is a great example https://pro.europeana.eu/post/how-ai-is-transforming-digital-cultural-heritage

There's a video too https://vimeo.com/showcase/11633699/

Excited to announce the themes for @AI4LAM 's Fantastic Futures 2025 conference, with @nfitzger and @ratanass for @BL_DigiSchol : https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2025/03/fantastic-futures-2025-ff2025-call-for-proposals-.html

From @thomassmits posting on bluesky @thomassmits.bsky.social‬:

Making Victorian visual culture searchable: Introducing an open-access and AI-powered dataset of 72,000 illustrations from the Illustrated London News (1842-1890) (w. Bethany Warner,
@pfyfe.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social )

https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.284

A 'Flask application enables scholars to use both textual and visual queries to search the 72,000 images' https://github.com/tpsmi/ilnmultimodalsearch

Code for extraction and multimodal AI embeddings: https://github.com/tpsmi/multimodaliln

At the National Library of Spain for a #CENL AI Network workshop where we're hearing updates about national & European activity: https://www.cenl.org/networkgroups/ai-in-libraries-network-group/ #AI #AI4LAM

A great example of learning on the job from Asa - 'Making cursive comfortable: Transcribing 19th Century archives using AI models' https://prov.vic.gov.au/about-us/our-blog/making-cursive-comfortable as presented at #FF2024 #AI4LAM

As if prompted by #FF2024, RNZ ran this article featuring Peter Lucas-Jones and the great 92% accuracy Te Reo Māori text-to-speech work at Te Hiku Media.

"It is important to recognise that big tech is not going to save te reo Māori."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/alert-nat/531303/why-google-maps-can-t-pronounce-maori-place-names

Memory is never filed away and reopened, like a file on a hard drive. It has to be re-inscribed through action and practice. The infrastructure of memory supports this: it consists of the stories we share, but also feelings, scents, and tastes, or returning to the places where things happened.

#ff24 #archives #ai4lam #dh https://cyberneticforests.substack.com/p/infrastructures-of-memory

#FF2024 ended with a literal bang in the form of Triptych, EDM+AV Mechanical Synaesthesia, by Robin Fox. It was loud, intense, immersive, and what could only be described as an unforgettable "trip" . Nothing I've ever experienced before. A reimagining. In many ways, that was one of the main threads at #FF2024 - deliberate and cautious approach, ask questions, be more conscientious, do #SlowAI if possible. Certainly a reimagining of how AI projects have been done post-Kraken .