Lise Jaillant

LUSTRE/GLOW Workshop Report On Tuesday 22 July 2025, a one-day workshop titled Government Records and AI was held at the Mercure Piccadilly Hotel, Manchester, as part of the LUSTRE/GLOW initiative led by Professor Lise Jaillant ...

🚀 AI and Government Records: New blog + slides from the LUSTRE GLOW Workshop!

Keynotes: Prof. Victoria Lemieux (UBC 🇨🇦) & David Canning MBE (Cabinet Office 🇬🇧).

🔗 Blog: lustre-network.net/lustre-glow-...

🔗 Slides: lustre-network.net/event/lustre...

#AI #GovTech #DigitalArchives

Research Associate GLOW at Loughborough University Discover Research Associate GLOW jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

🚨 I am hiring a Research Associate for the GLOW project! 🧠📂

💼 AI + government archives
📍 16 hours/ week, mostly online with occasional on-site work
📝 Qualitative research & stakeholder engagement
📅 Apply by 30 July!

🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS987/r...

#AcademicJobs #DigitalHumanities #AI #Archives

📢 Exciting news for cultural heritage professionals! "Navigating AI for Cultural Heritage Organisations," co-edited by our very own @lisejaillant.bsky.social, is now available! This essential guide explores how #AI is reshaping libraries, archives, & museums.

🚀 Excited to give a plenary at the "AI Meets Humanities & Social Sciences" conference in Vienna 🇦🇹!

✨ Talk: “Unlocking the Creative Potential of Archives: The Power of AI-Human Collaboration”

📅 June 23, 2025
📍 Austrian Academy of Sciences

Learn more: www.oeaw.ac.at/conference/a...

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This is a key output of the AEOLIAN project funded by the AHRC in the UK and the National Endowment for the Humanities in the US.

Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Organisations The question of how artificial intelligence and machine learning should be applied to data in libraries and other cultural institutions is a challenge shared by heritage professionals, computer scient...

🌟 New Release!
Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Organisations is here! 🚀 Explore AI’s role in archives, libraries, & museums with insights from top experts.

📖 Available #OpenAccess: uclpress.co.uk/AIHeritage

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Closing the session: AI and Colonial Archives: A Historian’s View
Jean Smith – King’s College London

After panel discussion, our last session: Session 4: Ethical Frameworks, AI and Archives

Colonial Photographs at The National Archives UK
Chloe Lee & Elizabeth Haines – The National Archives UK

Following that: Reflexive Access: Personal Archives, Colonial Images and Ethical AI
Briony Widdis – Queen’s University Belfast

Session 3: Archives, Collaborative Practice and Access

Giving Open Access to Colonial Photographic Collections: A Glimpse at InVisu’s Experience
Bulle Tuil Leonetti – InVisu (CNRS/INHA)

Continuing with: De-biasing Digital Collections through Community Participation and AI
Sofie Taes – KU Leuven

Up next: ECPAD Proposal: Military Archives and Artificial Intelligence: Managing the Sensitivity of Yesterday’s Images with Tomorrow’s Tools
Véronique Pontillon-Valedon & Loreleï Riahi Castillo – ECPAD

Moving to Session 2: AI, Sensitivity and Access

Imperial Preference: Sustainable Sensitivity Appraisal using AI and its Preservation
Geoffrey Browell & Manuela Pallotto Strickland – King’s College London

Coming up: Addressing Biased and Outdated Language in the Colonial Collections of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Africa Museum)
Dieter Van Hassel & Agata Dierick – Royal Museum for Central Africa

Next: Preserving and Showing Photographs Taken in a Colonial Context: The Case of the Musée de l’Armée’s Collections
Presenter: Lucie Moriceau-Chastagner – Musée de l’Armée

Session 1: Reinterpreting Colonial Archives in GLAM Collections

Introducing the National Museum of the Royal Navy’s Collection: Colonial Links and AI
Amy Adams & Clare Hunt – National Museum of the Royal Navy

GENIAC Workshop – Generative AI for Colonial Archival Images – is now underway at IWM London (13 May, 09:15–16:00).
A British Academy-funded event on ethical AI, metadata challenges & co-design with source communities.
#Archives #DigitalHumanities

✅ Building trustworthy AI solutions: integrating artificial intelligence literacy into records management and archival systems
Richard Arias Hernández & Moisés Rockembach

✅ AI and the visualisation needs of researchers using email archives
Peter Green @lgreenpd.bsky.social

✅ Data analysis and network visualisation as tools for curating hybrid correspondence archives
Callum McKean & Cameron Randall

✅ An endangered species: how LLMs threaten Wikipedia’s sustainability
Matthew A. Vetter, Jialei Jiang & Zachary J. McDowell

✅ AI to review government records: new work to unlock historically significant digital records
David Canning & Lise Jaillant

✅ Machine learning methods for isolating indigenous language catalog descriptions
Yi Liu, Carrie Heitman, Leen-Kiat Soh & Peter Whiteley

✅ How can we improve the diversity of archival collections with AI? Opportunities, risks, and solutions
Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social, Olivia Mitchell, Eric Ewoh-Opu & Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja @maribelhu.bsky.social

✅ Developing computer vision and machine learning strategies to unlock government-created records
Greg Jansen & Richard Marciano

✅ Large Language Models to make museum archive collections more accessible
Manon Reusens, Amy Adams & Bart Baesens

✅ Conceptualising methodological diversity among born-digital users: insights from the garbage can model
Adam Nix,Stephanie Decker & David A. Kirsch

✅ Copyright, Privacy, and Public Access in News Archives: a proof of concept on the Boston Globe photograph morgue
Giulia Taurino, Sarah Sweeney, Drew Facklam & David A. Smith

✅Explainable AI, LLM, and digitized archival cultural heritage: a case study of the Grand Ducal Archive of the Medici
Gabor Mihaly Toth, Richard Albrecht & Cedric Pruski

✅ Can AI help make California police policy human centered?
Catherine Nicole Coleman, Jiaju Liu & Chloe Kathryn Williams