Last week we hosted a webinar with Jessica Roberson and Jeremiah Colonna-Romano from the University of Alabama on how they were experimenting with OpenAI's GPT models for their archival metadata workflows. In the Q&A Jessica and Jeremiah were asked: Did you think of any privacy or copyright considerations when you were putting this content into ChatGPT? I had to chime … [Read more...] about Privacy And Copyright Considerations Using GPT Models
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Connection Makes Quality
I recently saw a presentation by Dick Kasperowski and Olof Karsvall about research they’d done on The Detective Section, a crowdsourcing project at the Swedish National Archives. Their findings contradicted some of the conventional wisdom that volunteers introduce bias into results when they bring their own subject-matter expertise to citizen science tasks, and that made me … [Read more...] about Connection Makes Quality
How LLMs Work & A Handwritten Text Recognition Sandbox
I’ve got two useful AI tidbits for you this month: The first is the best explanation of how large language models work. This is a pretty opaque topic that few attempt to understand, but I think it’s important to grasp – even in metaphor – how systems like ChatGPT work. When you understand how they work, your intuition for the types of problems they can – or can’t – … [Read more...] about How LLMs Work & A Handwritten Text Recognition Sandbox
AI-Assist in FromThePage: Using HTR in People-Centered Transcription
Last month, Ben and Sara Brumfield hosted a webinar to introduce the new AI-assist feature: Handwritten Text Recognition. The presentation, linked below in a video and embedded as slides, presents a walkthrough of the new HTR feature. This was one of FromThePage's most-attended webinars, and it was exciting to have so many people join. You can sign up for future … [Read more...] about AI-Assist in FromThePage: Using HTR in People-Centered Transcription
Guiding Transcribers: Addressing Racist Material in Crowdsourced Archival Projects
In honor of Black History Month, we asked some of the institutions who run projects uncovering the names and histories of African Americans on FromThePage the following question, "What do you tell volunteers who encounter offensive or racist material in your projects?" Sonya Coleman at Library of Virginia summed it up with a meme: From … [Read more...] about Guiding Transcribers: Addressing Racist Material in Crowdsourced Archival Projects