This month we are excited to share a fascinating project that highlights the power of crowdsourced transcriptions combined with AI. The Library of Virginia recently hosted a workshop titled "Envisioning Ancestors with AI," which utilized transcriptions of historic records from the Virginia Untold project (transcribed on FromThePage) to create imaginative depictions of people … [Read more...] about Envisioning Ancestors with AI
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Signature Talks Program
The Signature Talks program offers free training for your group through our most popular webinars, “Your First Crowdsourcing Project”, "10 Ways AI Will Change Archives and Libraries", and "Using HTR in People-Centered Transcription”, tailored to specific groups. This program is designed for groups of at least five people, providing a customized experience with a dedicated … [Read more...] about Signature Talks Program
Can Multi-Modal LLMs Transcribe Historic Documents?
Recently, both OpenAI and Google released new multi-modal large language models, where were immediately touted for their ability to transcribe documents. Also last week, I transcribed this document from the Library of Virginia’s collection from the Virginia Revolutionary Conventions. Let’s read it together: Whereas his Excellency John Earl of Dun- more Lieutenant and … [Read more...] about Can Multi-Modal LLMs Transcribe Historic Documents?
All the Things: Useful Metadata from AI
Ben and I have been brainstorming things that could be done with AI tools once you have transcriptions – crowdsourced or HTR’d – of documents. There’s a LOT! I thought it would be fun to share that list with you, to spark ideas and possibilities. Reply and let me know what ideas you have and what we missed. Yes, some of these are crazy – but many of them are not. And I … [Read more...] about All the Things: Useful Metadata from AI
Privacy And Copyright Considerations Using GPT Models
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