At the National Library of Spain for a #CENL AI Network workshop where we're hearing updates about national & European activity: https://www.cenl.org/networkgroups/ai-in-libraries-network-group/ #AI #AI4LAM
AI in Libraries Network Group – The Conference of European National Librarians (CENL)

Just about to kick off the second #AI event in the series at the National Library of Spain, English version of the programme: https://bne.es/sites/default/files/repositorio-archivos/NLS_CENL_AI_nov2024_English.pdf #CENL # DigitalLibraries #DigitalHumanities #DigitalScholarship #ML
After the welcome, kicking off with the BnF and hearing about #AI activities over the last 5 years #CENL #ML
Presentation of the programme of work, showing both the challenges and interdependencies
Now hearing about project from Denmark about improving access to AV collections driven by research use cases #CENL #AI #AV
Hearing about the environmental considerations of different models, important to know due to organisation sustainability policy #CENL #AI #sustainability
Now hearing from @sclaeyssens from the KB on #AI work underway in the Netherlands, from experimental projects to an organisation roadmap inspired by the BnF #CENL
@sclaeyssens hearing about research project that reversed engineered OpenAI Dutch model, includes content from the KB. This led to their #GenAI statement
Next up Tan Lu from the KBR in Belgium #CENL #AI
Overview of the research landscape at the KBR and how these projects have fed into recent #AI activities #CENL
One example project was to identify newspaper front pages during large scale digitisation currently at over 4m pages to support better user experience #CENL #AI #newspapers
Second session starting with National Library of Norway, from their 2005 Digital Manifesto to what the future with #AI may hold #CENL
Have had an #AI Lab since 2018, to build organisational capacity and useful tools and services. Failure recognised as an important part of the process! #CENL
Maken: https://www.nb.no/maken/ an example of an early #AI project put into production #CENL
Maken

Discussion moves on to the creation of a Norwegian language model, national library one best for language #AI #CENL
Model sits within landscape of explosion in other models developed for special use cases #Al #CENL
We’re tasked by government to assess usefulness of in-copyright material in language models #AI #CENL
Table shows complexity of assessment for different combinations of content types #AI # #CENL
Analysis suggests negative impact of including fiction in training data #AI #CENL
Now the National Library of Estonia with a historians perspective #AI #CENL
National #AI Strategy overview #CENL
Example of previous project which influenced later work #AI #CENL
Current work includes #GlamLabs to promote reuse of digital collections and collaboration with wider community #AI ##CENL
Now hearing about plans to #IIIF services for all purposes including #ML and #AI #CENL
Future plans #CENL #AI #IIIF
Now CLARIN-ES and their perspective on #AI #CENL #CLARIN
Overview of available resources #AI #CENL #CLARIN
And finally our hosts the National Library of Spain presents their #AI strategy and overcoming issues with how EU Directives have been transposed into national law #CENL
Data and #AI projects at the National Library of Spain #CENL
Challenges and opportunities that #AI brings that will be familiar to all #CENL members and others!
@nfitzger I'd love to know more about their plans! Could they do a talk for us?
@mia would be good to hear from several, maybe the #CENL conference in 2025