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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · Aug 1

🚀 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

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 ...

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · Jul 2

🚨 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

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.

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Loughborough Open Research Team @lboroor.bsky.social · Jun 17

📢 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.

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · Jun 20

🚀 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...

#AI #Archives

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · Jun 12

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.

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · Jun 12

🌟 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

#AI #CulturalHeritage

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...

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · May 13

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

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · May 13

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

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · May 13

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

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · May 13

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)

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · May 13

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

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · May 13

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

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · May 13

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

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · May 13

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

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · May 13

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

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · May 13

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

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · May 13

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

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · May 9

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

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · May 9

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

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · May 9

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

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · May 9

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

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · May 9

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

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · May 9

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

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · May 9

✅ 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

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Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social · May 9

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

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