#ff2025 — Public Fediverse posts

Fantastic Futures 2025 now seems like a distant memory, which makes it even more enjoyable to read this blog post and recall all of the brilliant papers and inspiring interactions with colleagues! Slides, posters and recordings now available, enjoy! https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/fantastic-futures-2025-highlights-and-resources

#ff2025 #AI4LAM #britishlibrary

Fantastic Futures 2025 now seems like a distant memory, which makes it even more enjoyable to read this blog post and recall all of the brilliant papers and inspiring interactions with colleagues! Slides, posters and recordings now available, enjoy! https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/fantastic-futures-2025-highlights-and-resources

#ff2025 #AI4LAM #britishlibrary

Fantastic Futures 2025 now seems like a distant memory, which makes it even more enjoyable to read this blog post and recall all of the brilliant papers and inspiring interactions with colleagues! Slides, posters and recordings now available, enjoy! https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/fantastic-futures-2025-highlights-and-resources

#ff2025 #AI4LAM #britishlibrary

Fantastic Futures 2025 now seems like a distant memory, which makes it even more enjoyable to read this blog post and recall all of the brilliant papers and inspiring interactions with colleagues! Slides, posters and recordings now available, enjoy! https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/fantastic-futures-2025-highlights-and-resources

#ff2025 #AI4LAM #britishlibrary

Fantastic Futures 2025 now seems like a distant memory, which makes it even more enjoyable to read this blog post and recall all of the brilliant papers and inspiring interactions with colleagues! Slides, posters and recordings now available, enjoy! https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/fantastic-futures-2025-highlights-and-resources

#ff2025 #AI4LAM #britishlibrary

Have you written anything about the British Library and @AI4LAM 's Fantastic Futures conference? We'd love to share your links if so - let us know! #FF2025

'Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring -
Not even a mouse...

Because everyone was watching the videos from the 2025 Fantastic Futures conference! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMWAkdzaapXgOYfyFX6RO485EPzVKQEeo

Two days of talks on AI and machine learning in libraries, archives and museums #AI4LAM #FF2025

#FF2025 pickings:

@danielvanstrien has published his workshop slides on open source AI for #GLAM institutions

https://danielvanstrien.xyz/slides.html

I consider his readworthy contribution as the AI complement to my reflections on open data (and their shades) published here:

https://mmk.sbb.berlin/2024/06/21/openness-and-some-of-its-shades/?lang=en

#openAccess #opensource #fiftyshadesofgrey

📣 While I've been busy at #FF2025, my colleagues Blanka & Hannah have been putting together an exciting webinar on "The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data and Data Sovereignty", coming up this Thursday 11 December! It's packed with speakers and perspectives from Australia & NZ, North America and Europe and completely free!

For timezone reasons it's split into a morning and an evening session, so feel free to join us for one or both.

More details here: https://mastodon.social/@dariaheu/115683434892158485

#FF2025 pickings:
This year has been extremely productive with regard to the AI & commons debate, as well as in view of the publication of open datasets in the public domain. My recommendations (1/3):

Paul Keller & Europeana Foundation: Publishing cultural heritage data in the age of AI, Dec 2025
https://openfuture.eu/publication/impulse-paper-publishing-cultural-heritage-data-in-the-age-of-ai/

Thomas Padilla et al: Public Interest Corpus Principles and Goals, Dec 2025
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2025/12/03/releasing-the-public-interest-corpus-principles-and-goals/

Some photos from Fantastic Futures #FF2025 uploaded on the Lizzy line wifi to Heathrow... looks like some doubles, which I'll sort out from Melbourne https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=12383598%40N00&view_all=1&text=%23ff2025

If you're in a photo and don't want to be, let me know and I'll remove it from view

One final thank you to everyone who made #FF2025 so good - it was a huge team effort! Safe travels to the non-Londoners! I'm off to Melbourne for a few weeks - happy to share the 'best of' over coffee with folk there!

#FF2025 handing over to #FF2026!

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!

That's a wrap on three awesome days discussing all things Artificial Intelligence in, for, and by Libraries, Archives and Museums! Thank you #ff2025 presenters and participants for joining us and making it such a smashing event. 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.com/view/ai4lam/home?authuser=0#h.p_i5PiJLPECTVp

Dr. Ines Vodopivec (Secretary General of AI4LAM) and Mike Keller (Stanford University Libraries) closing #FF2025 at the @bldigischol.bsky.social

That's @dorothyjberry delivering an incredible closing keynote at #FF2025

Some focusing questions:
How do we describe archives?
Why do we describe archives?
What are we trying to automate?

I loved @jasonclark.bsky.social 's #FF2025 'problem statement':

'We were given access to a weirdly confident intern that can’t explain how they got their answers.

It is a seamless interface that breaks search interaction + retrieval patterns.'

https://bsky.app/profile/jasonclark.bsky.social/post/3m7ajfiwo6s2b

The list of #FF2025 participants* should now be available if you're logged into conftool

* only people who've opted in, of course!

My lightning talk at #FF2025, “Refactoring the @IIIF Artificial Intelligence Community“ https://zenodo.org/records/17831102

Lightning talks include IIIF's AI/ML working group presented by the excellent Martin Kalfatovic https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&ismobile=true&form_session=26 #FF2025

Ethical Considerations Around Machine Learning-Engaged Online Participatory Research - poster from Zooniverse community at #FF2025 https://zenodo.org/records/17779992

I am so sorry that I have to tell that I already had to leave #ff2025 …
… otho please know that I have the ambitious plan to reach Berlin/Germany by train TODAY using EuroStar and (being an adventurous traveler) Deutsche Bahn, thus showing real chuzpe.

Thank you so much to all the incredible organisers of this superb conference, especially @mia and @nfitzger - very much looking forward to see all of you again on one of the upcoming Fantastic Futures!

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

Interesting presentation at #FF2025 by Mike Trizna @miketrizna.bsky.social and Richard Naples on #Benchmarking ... using the example of historical botanical text from Smithsonian-published work ...

... which is very much the Smithsonian complement to the (yet undigitised) collection of botanical drawings and paintings published by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew recently:

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo265674343.html

#AI #PlantNet

“Wildflowers as Benchmarks: Creating a LAM-Specific LLM Evaluation Using Historical Botanical Text” presented by Richard Naples & Mike Trizna of the Smithsonian at #FF2025 https://bit.ly/3KGOs5a

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 https://join.slack.com/t/ai4lam/shared_invite/zt-3dgcao1df-HlZ48aLo6x90ldXeXz_Seg

Folks concerned about prompt optimization for tasks might want to look at packages like DSpy https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy #ff2025

'Distrusting, techno-pessimistic and conservative'. National Libraries and the Politics of AI Training Data by @[email protected] & Sophie Ham from @kbnationalebibliotheek #FF2025 https://bit.ly/3KGOs5a

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! https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=31 #FF2025

Now on #FF2025: Introduction to the presentation on "National Libraries and the Politics of AI Training Data" by @sclaeyssens and @sophiesposts talking about the 'friendly fire' they received from, erm, people like me (and other institutions) over restricting access to their digital / digitized collections.

Citation from Anna-Maria Sichani's & my position paper:
"CHIs and research libraries are not in the position to define who should have access and to decide to impose restrictions on access"

@sclaeyssens

Relevant in this context is the concept & prototype developed at @stabi_berlin , all being described in the position paper published by Anna-Maria Sichani @amsichani.bsky.social and me in

https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.290

#FF2025 #AI #Copyright

Navigating copyright at the German national library with Philippe Genêt: exploring Derived Text Formats (DTFs) for TDM and LLM training. #ff2025

*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 https://dh2026.adho.org/cfp/ - the conference is in Korea but remote presentations are possible! #MuseTech #AI4LAM #DigitalHumanities

Last day of Fantastic Futures 2025: AI Everywhere, All at Once begins! What an absolutely inspired community this is 🤩! Register for free access to today's livestream https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/index.php?page=participate and join in a full schedule of incredible talks. https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_date=2025-12-05 #ai4lam #ff2025

My semi regular refrain, #ocr is not a solved problem #ff2025 #AI4LAM

Now the lightning talk on datasheets & data-envelopes presented by @sclaeyssens and Antoine Isaac at #FF2025

The slides of the presentation are available at

https://zenodo.org/records/17725565

#datasheets #data-envelopes #ML #collectionsasdata

@sclaeyssens
Essential reading in this respect:

Pei-Chun Lee, Navigating the path to sustainability: Digital resilience in libraries

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03400352251331465

#digitalresilience #FF2025

(as a side note: we are at the BL and the topic of cybersecurity has not yet been mentioned...)

Rachel Coldicutt during #FF2025: "Let’s make tech work for 8 billion people not for 8 billionaires"
#ai4lam #bigtech #datafeminism

Welcoming a spectacular crowd today for the first day of Fantastic Futures 2025: AI Everywhere, All at Once! #ai4lam #ff2025 Online registrations are open throughout the next two days so if you couldn't make it in person, register to access the livestream! https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_date=2025-12-04

In my first workshop of the #FF2025 conference! Considering 'Future scenarios: Supporting the AI4LAM Community in Teaching and Learning' https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=48

As #AI4LAM matures, what do people need from the Teaching and Learning AI WG?

It's Workshop Wednesday at #FF2025! Conference attendees, did you know you can log in to conftool and book in for any workshop with last minute free spaces? So many exciting topics, have a look and you might be in luck if you missed out on a place the first time around! #ai4lam https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&presentations=hide&form_date=2025-12-03

It's our favourite conference event in the calendar, and this year, we have the honour of hosting it at British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social! Fantastic Futures 2025 covering all things AI for Libraries, Archives and Museums begins THIS WEEK! https://sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/fantastic-futures-2025 Just check out this outstanding programme https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/sessions.php! #ff2025 #ai4lam

Online registration for Fantastic Futures 2025 is now open! Watch all the Thursday and Friday sessions for free: https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/

#FF2025 #Ai4LAM

Registration now open! Join us at The #BritishLibrary for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference on the theme of "AI Everywhere, All at Once" 🎉

https://sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/fantastic-futures-2025?authuser=0

#FF2025 @BL_DigiSchol

Thank you to everyone who has already submitted some really interesting sounding #ff2025 proposals. Final reminder for those still to submit, closing date this Sunday 1st June! See the website: https://sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/fantastic-futures-2025?authuser=0 for background information and the FAQs. #ML #AI4LAM #DH #DigitalScholarship #GLAM

Just like @mia, this talk by Barbara Shubinski, Rockerfeller Archive Center, drew me in, and I couldn't summarise. It would be great as a full talk. Maybe at #FF2025
https://hcommons.social/@mia/113326897490041469

#FF2024 #AI4LAM

@nfitzger announces that #ff2025 will be in London 3-5th December 2025 at the #BritishLibrary
#AI4LAM #ff2024

#SaveTheDate 💾 #FF2025 at the British Library! 3-5 December 2025.🔥🤩🤩🔥

#FF2024 #AI4LAM

Liked #FF2024? Come to London for #FF2025!

3 - 5 December 2025

https://ai4lam.org/ #AI4LAM