Under the theme Artificial Intelligence in the Future of Work in GLAMs, the Fantastic Futures conference in 2024 explored the current state and potential future of artificial intelligence and generative AI within the GLAM sector.

In Conversation: Language, culture and the machines

Panel Members: Kathy Reid, Peter-Lucas Jones (hosted by Keir Winesmith)

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In Conversation: Language, culture and the machines

Applying AI to accelerate data transcription from digital objects

Presenter: Karen Thompson

AI literacy for librarians in low-resource, multicultural communities

Presenter: Kara Kennedy

Gender in a (supposedly) non-gendered historical space: generative AI, sentiment analysis and graph databases in the Rockefeller Foundation Collections of the 1930s

Adopting Whisper: creating a front end optimised for processing needs

Presenter: Rachel Senese Myers

Enhanced stewardship and data sovereignty through the implementation of an ontology-enhanced ​large language model (LLM)

Presenter: Lizabeth Johnson

19th century handwriting and model-making with Transkribus

Presenter: Asa Letourneau (for Kate Follington)

Just one more access point: LLM assistance with authority control

Presenter: Laura McGuiness