AI4LAM

📢 We’re excited to announce a new strategic collaboration between the GRAPHIA Project and AI4LAM 📢

Together, we’ll explore how AI and knowledge graphs can enhance access to, connect, and enrich cultural heritage and knowledge ecosystems.

Through this partnership, we aim to foster knowledge exchange, advance collaborative research, and strengthen international cooperation for innovation and accessibility. We look forward to the journey ahead! 🌟

Read more: https://ai4lam.org/ai4lam-and-graphia-announce-the-launch-of-a-strategic-collaboration/

🎬 The AI4LAM Community Call from June 16, 2026 is now available online! 🎬

A big thank you to both speakers, Derek Lomas (Embassy of the Free Mind) and Vicent Bosch Campos (tranSkriptorium), for sharing their inspiring work with the AI4LAM community, and to our moderators, Mike Trizna and Keith Krut, for guiding the conversation and ensuring a great session.

📺 Watch the recording and learn more about these exciting projects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2NrJar7bZU&list=PLMWAkdzaapXgyJdfojsMBuEmDM-v1kUMF&index=1

📢 Registration for Fantastic Futures 2026 Conference is now open for everyone! 📢

Secure your place today and join us at FF2026. As spaces are filling up quickly, we encourage you to register as soon as possible.

Find everything you need in one place, including the conference preliminary programme, key event details, and the registration form. Register now and be part of the AI future: https://ai4lam.org/fantastic-futures-2026-conference-information/

We look forward to welcoming you to Fantastic Futures 2026! 🎉

📢 Hello AI4LAM folks 📢

Our next Community Call is set for Tuesday, April 21, 8:00 AM California | 11:00 AM Washington DC | 16:00 UK | 17:00 Oslo & Paris | 01:00 Sydney. Agenda:

- PART 1: Open Heritage Statement (Brigitte Vézina, Director of Policy and Open Culture at Creative Commons)
- PART 2: Graphia knowledge graph (Julien Homo, Foxcub, OPERAS)

Don't forget to register!
See you there!

https://ai4lam.org/event/ai4lam-community-call-2/

📢 AI4LAM COMMUNITY CALL - MAY 19, 15:00 UTC 📢

Join us for the May Community Call on Tuesday, May 19:
🕗 8:00 AM (California) | 11:00 AM (Washington, DC) | 16:00 (UK) | 17:00 (Oslo & Paris) | 01:00 (Sydney)

We’re excited to welcome two speakers:
Presenter 1: Dr. Shani Evenstein Sigalov (University of London) - on the AI-BRIDGES
Presenter 2: Slava Tykhonov (CODATA) - on the Semantic Croissant and digital policies

https://ai4lam.org/event/ai4lam-community-call-may-19-2026/

📢 ⏱️ LAST DAY FOR PROPOSAL SUBMISSION ⏱️ 📢

Last call to submit proposals for Fantastic Futures 2026 — today is the deadline! Don’t miss out - we’re excited to see your submissions and contributions shape the AI4LAM initiative!

https://ai4lam.org/ff2026-submission-deadline-update-16-april-2026/

👋 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 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

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.

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!

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.

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 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 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 👋 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!

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!

🎬🎥 Community Call from April 21, 2026, is now published! 🎥 🎬

The latest AI4LAM Community Call is now available to watch online. If you missed the live session, you can catch up anytime and watch the full recording on our YouTube channel. Don’t forget to check it out and stay up to date with what’s happening in the AI4LAM community! 💥

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a17aJk7KvBw

📢 AI4LAM Fantastic Futures 2026 📢

We’re pleased to share the Initial Fee Announcement for FF2026. Read more and stay tuned for upcoming updates!

❗ We’d also like to remind you that our monthly community call is taking place today - feel free to join us ❗

https://ai4lam.org/ff2026-initial-fee-announcement/

📢 AI4LAM COMMUNITY CALL - JUNE 16, 15:00 UTC 📢

Join us for the June Community Call on Tuesday, June 16:
:clock8: 8:00 AM (California) | 11:00 AM (Washington, DC) | 16:00 (UK) | 17:00 (Oslo & Paris) | 01:00 (Sydney)

PRESENTER 1: Derek Lomas (Delft University of Technology, Embassy of the Free Mind) - on Source Library
PRESENTER 2: Vicent Bosch Campos (transkriptorium) - on Mass Indexing and Full-Text Search in Complex Manuscripts with archAIc

See you there!
https://ai4lam.org/event/ai4lam-community-call-june-16-2026/

🌟📢 We are pleased to welcome the Getty as a Founding Member of @AI4LAM@glammr.us - Artificial Intelligence for Libraries, Archives and Museums 📢🌟

This milestone strengthens our growing international community working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cultural heritage. Together, we are advancing responsible, innovative, and human-centered approaches to AI across libraries, archives, and museums worldwide.

Read more: https://ai4lam.org/getty-joins-ai4lam-as-a-founding-member/

🎥 AI4LAM Community Call from May 19, 2026, is now published! 🎥

The latest AI4LAM Community Call is now available to watch online. If you missed it yesterday, you can catch up anytime by watching the full recording on our YouTube channel. Don’t forget to check it out and stay up to date with what’s happening in the AI4LAM community! :boom::loudspeaker:

Thanks again to both speakers, Slava Tykhonov and Shani Evenstein Sigalov!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwRSyi9himM
https://ai4lam.org/ (edited)

RE: https://glammr.us/@AI4LAM/116561280369079803

Hey folks! 👋

Just a friendly reminder that AI4LAM Community Call is happening tomorrow! Make sure to register and join us for an exciting session filled with updates and discussions. We’re looking forward to connecting with all of you there 🎉

Hey folks! 👋

Just a friendly reminder that AI4LAM Community Call is happening tomorrow! Make sure to register and join us for an exciting session filled with updates and discussions. We’re looking forward to connecting with you there 🎉

https://ai4lam.org/event/ai4lam-community-call-june-16-2026/

🌟📢 We are pleased to welcome the European Fashion Heritage Association (EFHA) as a Founding Member AI4LAM 📢🌟

This new collaboration strengthens the global community working on responsible and innovative uses of AI in libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM sector), and further supports the digital transformation of cultural and fashion heritage across Europe and beyond.

Read more: https://ai4lam.org/european-fashion-heritage-association-joins-ai4lam-as-a-founding-member/

🌟📢 We are pleased to announce that Stony Brook University Libraries has joined AI4LAM as a Founding Member! 📢🌟

This marks an important step forward in a growing international community dedicated to the responsible, ethical, and sustainable use of artificial intelligence across libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs).

https://ai4lam.org/stony-brook-university-libraries-joins-ai4lam-as-a-founding-member/