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Enabling innovative research with British Library digital collections. Posts by our Digital Curators https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/

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The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Based in London, it is the largest library in the world, with an estimated collection of over 200 million items from multiple countries. As a legal deposit library, it receives copies of all books produced in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as a significant proportion of overseas titles distributed in the United Kingdom. The library operates as a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. .. more

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 7d
It's our favourite conference event in the calendar, and this year, we have the honour of hosting it @BritishLibrary! Fantastic Futures 2025 covering all things AI for Libraries, Archives and Museums begins THIS WEEK! sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/... #ff2025 #ai4lam

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 4d
Safe travels to all the #ff2025 #ai4lam visitors from all of us in the British Library Digital Research Team! See you at Fantastic Futures 2026 in Washington D.C. next September!

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 4d
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 4d
Keep an eye on the #ai4lam YouTube channel for recordings https://www.youtube.com/@ai4lam120/videos . There are lots of ways to stay connected with the #ai4lam community throughout the year, join today and we'll see you at future community calls and events! https://sites.google. [2/3]
AI4LAM
Artificial Intelligence for Libraries, Archives & Museums (AI4LAM) is a collaborative framework for libraries, archives and museums to organize, share and elevate their knowledge about and use of artificial intelligence. On this channel you will find recordings of past global community calls, webinars organised by regional chapters and working groups, and relevant conference presentations. Learn more about this global community at our website, where you will find instructions to join the email list or Slack channel.
www.youtube.com

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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 4d
Closing keynote at #ff2025 from @dorothyjberry.bsky.social "What are we looking at? Massive Models and Minimal Description" starts with a quote from @ryancordell.org and discussion of luddism & AI in archives and libraries.

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 4d
Loads of great talks at #ff2025 - this was fab 👇

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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 4d
Next year's conference date/location will be announced soon!

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Bohyun Kim @bohyunkim.bsky.social · 4d
What would be some of the concrete and *realistic* terms/features of “responsible AI” practices in your opinion (not of the pie-in-the-sky type)? I would love to hear from folks at #FF2025 if you have thoughts on this topic. Thank you!

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{ "jason": "clark" } @jasonclark.bsky.social · 4d
Slides and code from my #ff2025 talk, "Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) for Trustworthy Generative AI (GenAI)."

Slides:
docs.google.com/presentation...

Code:
github.com/jasonclark/a...
small-language-models-trust-clark-ff2025-shared
Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) to Create Trustworthy GenAI Jason A. Clark @jasonclark Montana State University Fantastic Futures 2025
docs.google.com

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 4d
Fantastic new wildflower plates and descriptions shared as a benchmark task from Smithsonian folks - github.com/Smithsonian/... with comparison of Gemini VLM models and Qwen models on it #ff2025

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Martin R. Kalfatovic @udcmrk.bsky.social · 4d
“Wildflowers as Benchmarks: Creating a LAM-Specific LLM Evaluation Using Historical Botanical Text” presented by @drastician.bsky.social & @miketrizna.bsky.social at #FF2025 bit.ly/3KGOs5a
Richard Naples Mike Trizna

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 4d
I feel like 2025 is the year that getting structured data for catalogues from cards got real #FF2025 - so much work in orgs around the world! Come share at join.slack.com/t/ai4lam/sha...

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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
Folks concerned about prompt optimization for tasks might want to look at packages like DSpy https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy #ff2025
GitHub - stanfordnlp/dspy: DSPy: The framework for programming—not prompting—language models
DSPy: The framework for programming—not prompting—language models - stanfordnlp/dspy
github.com

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Martin R. Kalfatovic @udcmrk.bsky.social · 4d
'Distrusting, techno-pessimistic and conservative'. National Libraries and the Politics of AI Training Data by Steven Claeyssens & Sophie Ham from @kb.nl #FF2025 bit.ly/3KGOs5a
Steven Claeyssens & Sophie Ham Steven Claeyssens & Sophie Ham

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 4d
I'm lucky to be chairing a great session with lots of brilliant short papers, from 'The Politics of AI Training Data' (with people who critiqued the KB NL in the audience!), vision language models, work with newspapers and more! www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... #FF2025
Fantastic Futures 2025 - ConfTool Pro - BrowseSessions
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with…
www.conftool.org

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Maribel Hidalgo-Urbaneja @maribelhu.bsky.social · 4d
Presenting some of my work for the Mobile Subjects. Contrapuntal Modernisms today at #FF2025. In the past 3 days, I gained a lot of insight in how LAM use AI and am looking forward to apply some of their lesons to my work with @slaveryinwar.bsky.social A great way to end 2025!

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arimare.bsky.social @arimare.bsky.social · 4d
In case you missed it yesterday @dchavezheras.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social presented Intelligent Systems for Screen Archives ISSA collaborative project supported by BFI Innovation Challenge Fund in partnership with film archives & @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social github.com/kingsdigital... #ff2025

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sam blickhan @snblickhan.bsky.social · 4d
One more round of papers here at #ff2025 before the lunch break and poster session, where I'll be presenting our ongoing work developing a ML/AI framework for @zooniverse.bsky.social, co-authored with Hillary Burgess.

For those not attending, you can see the poster here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Ethical Considerations Around Machine Learning-Engaged Online Participatory Research
This poster presents work in progress that brings interdisciplinary researchers, practitioners, and members of the public together in a series of workshops to discuss the ethics of machine learning-en...
doi.org

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Bohyun Kim @bohyunkim.bsky.social · 4d
Loved hearing about this AI literacy project to support information professionals (as well as the public)! misbehavingmachines.net #FF2025
Questions you Questions you imagine Al could answer. Mundane/ prosaic questions. Completely fanciful/ absurd questions Questions you imagine Al could never answer Evaluation. Confidence dimension. Personal and Supportive. Using LLMs to answer a question for myself, Knowing what to use LLMs for, Knowing how to evaluate answers from LLMS; Helping a client to use LLMs to answer a question, Advising a client on what to use LLMs for, Advising a client on how to evaluate answers from LLMs

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 4d
*waves* at @ukmcg.bsky.social #MuseTech25 folk from #FF2025 - it'd be lovely to see more museum presentations at #FF2026 - and the #DH2026 call for proposals is still open dh2026.adho.org/cfp/ - the conference is in Korea but remote presentations are possible! #MuseTech #AI4LAM #DigitalHumanities
CFP – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2026, to be held in Daejeon, South Korea, from July 27 to 31, 2026.
dh2026.adho.org

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Martin R. Kalfatovic @udcmrk.bsky.social · 4d
@[email protected] Secretary General Dr. Ines Vodopivec introduces #FF2025 short papers session bit.ly/4iOTHwf
Dr. Ines Vodopivec

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Alberto Santiago Martinez @asantimarti.bsky.social · 4d
I love how AI projects focus on UX. It’s also worth looking at CX and how people move between systems and physical or virtual spaces, and how that connects to each organization’s culture/values. Perhaps technological developments should consider that?
#ff2025

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 4d
We began #FF2025 with two long papers - Developing Archival AI chatbots and AI to Improve AV Metadata in a Legacy System www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...

Up next, a whole bunch of different topics in an intense half hour! www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...
Fantastic Futures 2025 - ConfTool Pro - BrowseSessions
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with…
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Martin R. Kalfatovic @udcmrk.bsky.social · 4d
“Old system, new tricks; Using AI to Improve AV Metadata in a Legacy System” presented by Agnes Toftgård, National Library of Sweden ##FF2025 bit.ly/3MhqFJC
Agnes Toftgård

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Alberto Santiago Martinez @asantimarti.bsky.social · 4d
A word cloud from the presentation transcripts would be interesting. I’m guessing "UX" "annif" & "MCP" would stand out.

#ff2025

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 4d
#ff2025 livestream folk - if you haven't already spotted them, we have excellent transcription by expert transcribers who've seen the slides and abstracts - look for the CC option

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Martin R. Kalfatovic @udcmrk.bsky.social · 4d
Finola Finn, Caio Mello, & Yves Maurer speaking on “Developing Archival AI chatbots: risks, benefits, and future directions” from the @bnluxembourg.bsky.social ##FF2025
Finola Finn, Caio Mello, & Yves Maurer Finola Finn, Caio Mello, & Yves Maurer

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 4d
#FF2025 in-person folk - if you're feeling a bit sniffly after travel and/or having fun in London, there are some (surgical) masks at the registration desk. I'm seeing my favourite octogenarians on Monday so I'm masking up most of the time too!