Back after lunch with Peter Leonard & Lindsay King, Stanford University Library – Beyond ChatGPT: Transformers Models for Collections
Chat-based interfaces are too popular to ignore as ways of interacting with cultural material (even if we don't like the chatgpt turn). So how can we make it better in our CHI context, and help people understand what it can and can't do? #FF24 #FF2024 #aiart 4LAM
While I remember, Grant's NFSA presentation #FF2024 on granular access controls for AV records and transcriptions reminded me of my current favourite example, https://museumdata.uk
My notes from their launch https://www.openobjects.org.uk/2024/09/notes-from-the-museum-data-service-launch/ #FF24 #AI4LAM
Two of Lindsay's examples of 'evocative search' using CLIP - overcast, waves - gorgeous ways of accessing images via clustering #FF24 #FF2024 #AI4LAM
Now Peter's advocating for experiments with RAG - retrieval augmented generation - slightly more accurate chatGPT
Now it's @joshuatj Joshua Ng, Archives New Zealand – Exploring machine learning to transform Archives New Zealand’s digital services for agencies #FF24 #FF2024 #AI4LAM
Got some funds for a proof of concept to streamline the archival appraisal process, identify material of importance to communities. Worked with two govt ministries and Microsoft and AWS
@joshuatj Proof of concept in 4 parts - planning including scoping, setting goals, working with partners; preparing the test environments (data sovereignty); preparing the data including identifying a dataset and pre-curation; solution building and testing by technology partners
75-88% accuracy identifying correct 'disposal' class; were also able to find records of interest to match Maori subject headings #FF2024 #FF24 #AI4LAM
Now Sydney Shep, Kirsten Thorpe in conversation with Roxanne Missingham. Sydney references data sovereignty (image).
Asked about AI, Sydney says technology should not be the driver, it should start with community needs. Kirsten references conversations about distributed community archives; a moment of reckoning for GLAM #FF2024 #AI4LAM #FF24
#FF2024 Benjamin Lee and Andrew Dean then Kath Bode on 'Reanimating and Reinterpreting the Archive with AI: Unifying Scholarship and Practice'
Ben and Andrew presented the computer poetry of J M Coetzee
Kath's attempt to use word embeddings to understand Irishness in Australian lit were frustrating by bad OCR (familiar!) and 'perseverations' in Llama-3 - adding text from other prompts into 'corrected' OCR
#FF2024 Kath Bode didn't find that OCR quality improved as paper quality and typography improved in more modern newspapers (contra some @LivingWithMachines findings)
(Newspapers are so awesome and still *so* hard to work with!)
Mia
Peter Leonard
Neil Fitzgerald
Jez 🍞🌹
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