AI4LAM

Hello AI4LAM folks 👋
Our next Community Call is set for Tuesday, February 17, 8:00 AM California | 11:00 AM Washington DC | 16:00 UK | 17:00 Oslo & Paris | 01:00 Sydney. The agenda covers:
- Planning for Fantastic Futures 2026: Trust in the Loop
- A discussion of the Content and Provenance Authenticity white paper
- 2025 Year in Review (Part 2)

See you there!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dWTj87Dt2s_5sYtfBlKuQQzR3sbNoLwNQ49I6mHS97I/edit?usp=sharing

Hello AI4LAM community 👋 The January Community Call is set for Tuesday, January 20, 8:00 AM California | 11:00 AM Washington DC | 16:00 UK | 17:00 Oslo & Paris | 01:00 Sydney. The call will include a recap of Fantastic Futures 2025 and part 1 of our 2025 Year in Review. See you there!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L9dcODxQNOI-myArVP95CQDc9B6lzfHpod0WflWf4AY/edit?usp=sharing

👋 Hello AI4LAM community,

This is a quick reminder that there will be no December Community Call as we're taking a holiday break. That said, check out the FF2025 drive for materials from the recent conference, including videos which should be up soon!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NH9M8P4ysZkkwG_OixfkJ9pMcB_20ArH

Stay tuned for more updates as we enter the new year!

Hello AI4LAM community 👋 The November Community Call is set for Tuesday, November 25, 8:00 AM California | 11:00 AM Washington DC | 16:00 UK | 17:00 Oslo & Paris | 01:00 Sydney. The call will include updates on the AI4LAM membership process, and other updates and community announcements. https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Lnhcpme8awd8L2DGxjhg46c7T_kakVH7RBPEtplE1E/edit?usp=sharing

See you there!

Pleased to share that general registration for #FF2025 is now open, see: https://sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/fantastic-futures-2025 for more info and FAQs. Draft programme: https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/sessions.php #GLAM #ML #AI4LAM #DH

Hi AI4LAM community! 👋

The next Community Call is set for Tuesday, September 16, 11am (ET). Morgan Harvey (University of Sheffield) will discuss Civil War Bluejackets, a ML project focused on historical research. More info: https://lnkd.in/dJuMMyQ3.

Looking ahead, our October Community Call (date TBD) will focus on archives. Luis Antonio Morró González (Valencia University) will discuss TRANSKRIPTORIUM, and Markus Stauffiger (4eyes GmbH) will present on Swiss Archipanion archival work support.

Hi AI4LAM folk! 👋

This is a reminder that there is NO Community Call tomorrow. We are taking August off and look forward to virtually getting back together on Tuesday, September 16. During this session we plan to discuss website refresh, and more. If you have topics to add, please write them in our agenda.

Thanks, and see you in September!

Hello AI4LAM community 👋 Our next community call is Tuesday, July 15 8:00 AM California | 11:00 AM Washington DC | 16:00 UK | 17:00 Oslo & Paris | 01:00 Sydney.

Agenda: https://lnkd.in/dHRBCVMM

To ease into summer, we will do a virtual group exercise based on the "Archival Images of AI" playbook created by AIxDESIGN and Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision. We want to have some fun with the workshop and gather your ideas for a design refresh of the AI4LAM website, logo, and event branding.

👋 June community call is Tuesday, June 17, 8:00 AM California | 11:00 AM Washington DC | 16:00 UK | 17:00 Oslo & Paris | 01:00 Sydney.

Title: The Hugging Face Hub for LAM AI Datasets and Use Cases

Presenter: Daniel van Strien, Machine Learning Librarian at Hugging Face

This is a short practical workshop on how the LAM community can prepare data for machine learning projects and how machine learning and AI tools can transform existing collections into data.

Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-ftbrVmqf4eFKh3mzi6-FihwysXWlAgqP-gc8vm5ba4/edit?usp=sharing

📅 Reminder: The AI4LAM May community call is tomorrow, Tuesday, May 20, 8:00 AM California | 11:00 AM Washington DC | 15:00 UK | 16:00 Oslo & Paris | 02:00 Sydney.

This session will include a presentation from Rasa Bočytė, "Archival Images of AI: creating alternative narratives about AI."

Here's a link to the agenda, with links for virtual attendees: https://lnkd.in/dZF9DsCX (Don't forget to register your interest and mark yourself as attending!)

We look forward to seeing you there!

The submission portal for #FF2025 proposals is now open, please see the conference webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/fantastic-futures-2025 for further details and updated FAQs. The deadline for submission of proposals is midnight anywhere, Sunday 1st June 2025.

Hi folks! The next meeting of the DC Chapter will be Thursday, May 15, 2025, 4pm at the Library of Congress, 6th floor, Dining room A. Virtual attendees can get call in info here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KeNODuBfpOnU0wS5U3B0W3kvKAOLqULXYK_qtdMJwcY/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.pzs92pcjzdo)

We will discuss survey results and set norms/goals for our first year. We also have presentations from Ines Vodopivec, Secretary General of AI4LAM, and Travis Hoppe, former Assistant Director of AI Research and Development at the White House Office of Science Technology Policy.

See you there!