Want to learn more with your peers in libraries, archives and museums? Join the AI4LAM Slack join.slack.com/t/ai4lam/sha...
Submit a proposal to FF2026 by April 6! ai4lam.org/fantastic-fu... #FF2026 #FF2025 #AI4LAM
AI in libraries, archives and museums?! Summary blog post about Fantastic Futures 2025 #FF2025 www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
FF2025 abstracts, posters, slides: doi.org/10.23636/54k...
Watch plenary sessions online: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Fantastic Futures 2025 seems like a distant memory, which makes it even more enjoyable to read this blog post and recall brilliant papers and inspiring interactions. Slides, posters and recordings now available! www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
#ff2025 @britishlibrary.bsky.social @bldigischol.bsky.social
'Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring -
Not even a mouse...
Because everyone was watching talks from the 2025 Fantastic Futures #FF2025 conference! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Two days of talks on AI and machine learning in GLAMS #AI4LAM #FF2025
#FF2025
@danielvanstrien.bsky.social has published his workshop slides on #opensource AI for #GLAM 's
danielvanstrien.xyz/slides.html
I consider his readworthy contribution as the AI complement to my reflections on open data (and their shades) published here:
mmk.sbb.berlin/2024/06/21/o...
Here's alt text for the meme: Alt text: "Flex Tape meme format. Top panel: Phil Swift (labeled 'Library Systems Vendor') aggressively spraying water representing 'Outdated systems, metadata issues, disjointed search and complex user needs.' Bottom panel: A hand slapping Flex Tape underwater, with the tape labeled 'AI-powered chat interface.'" This captures the joke that vendors are positioning AI chat as a quick fix for deep-seated library infrastructure problems—a bit like slapping tape on a leak rather than fixing the plumbing.
Just posted my slides from the AI4LAM #FF2025 workshop on open source AI for GLAMs.
Probably slides on their own aren't that useful, but they do feature one of my growing collection of libraries-and-AI memes, so there's that danielvanstrien.xyz/slides.html
📣 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 […]
#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, public domain datasets.
Paul Keller & Europeana Foundation: Publishing cultural heritage data in the age of AI, Dec 2025
openfuture.eu/publication/...
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 www.flickr.com/search/?user...
If you're in a photo and don't want to be, let me know and I'll remove it from view
Might be of interest to the #ff2025 crowd who viewed @kmcdono.bsky.social and @latest.allmaps.org session. Placename text + historic GIS.
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!
There were many great things to learn from attending #ff2025, but possibly the most surprising thing to discover was that pints are still under £8 in pubs around the BL.
Fool’s Cap world map, Flanders 1590. On display in the BL’s secret maps exhib, but on loan from the Bodleian.
A rejuvenating trip to #ff2025 at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Great to spend 2 days in a room of likeminded folks, exploring how AI can be used for social and informational good, while avoiding fools, pitfalls and bear traps. Am looking forward to hanging out more in GLAM again in 2026.
Encouragingly similar to Mike Keller’s closing reflections encouraging deep reading, deep thinking, and deep respect in libraries, archives, and museums even as they engage critically with AI #ff2025
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. [1/3]
Dammit, that's @dorothyjberry.bsky.social ! #FF2025
(my brain is fried)
A light-skinned Black woman is just visible behind a podium on a stage. Her slides ask: How do we describe archives? Why do we describe archives? What are we trying to automate?
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?
Dr. Ines Vodopivec (Secretary General of AI4LAM) and Mike Keller (Stanford University Libraries) closing #FF2025 at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social
"How do archives reach the public in the 21st century?" - @dorothyjberry.bsky.social asks this question to frame reflections on the Johnson archive digitization. #ff2025
Berry is taking us on a journey into the Johnson Publishing Company Archives to look at the pieces, people, and processes of a massive digitization project. #ff2025
www.getty.edu/projects/joh...
Closing keynote at #ff2025 from @dorothyjberry.bsky.social "What are we looking at? Massive Models and Minimal Description" starts with a quote from @ryancordell.org and discussion of luddism & AI in archives and libraries.
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.'
The list of #FF2025 participants* should now be available if you're logged into conftool
* only people who've opted in, of course!
Loads of great talks at #ff2025 - this was fab 👇
Prezi
My lightning talk at #FF2025, “Refactoring the @iiif.bsky.social Artificial Intelligence Community“ zenodo.org/records/1783...
Lightning talks include IIIF's AI/ML working group presented by the excellent Martin Kalfatovic www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... #FF2025
Lots of great posts coming out of the Fantastic Futures: AI in Libraries, Archives, Museums conference this week.
#ff2025 #archives
Shout out #2 for LC Labs AI planning process at #ff2025 :) Definitely having impact across institutions and projects!
