Adi Keinan-SchoonbaertFantastic 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
Digital Scholarship at the BL
Mia'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
Fantastic Futures 2025 at the British Library
Jörg Lehmann#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
Jez 🍞🌹
📣 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/
Impulse paper: Publishing cultural heritage data in the age of AI – Open Future
This paper proposes a framework to help cultural heritage institutions decide when and how to share collection data for AI training, balancing open access with managing large-scale AI reuse aligned with their public mandate.
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!
