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Jisc Content and Digitisation Menu Home About Digital Archival Collections (DAC) Advisory Group Projects and resources (about) Historical Texts (live resource) Journal Archives (live resource) Making your resources easier to discover (info & training resource) DAC group purchasing scheme (information resource) Spotlight on the Digital (completed project) UK Medical Heritage Library (completed project) Search Search for: Home About Digital Archival Collections (DAC) Advisory Group Projects and resources (about) Show sub menu Historical Texts (live resource) Journal Archives (live resource) Making your resources easier to discover (info & training resource) DAC group purchasing scheme (information resource) Spotlight on the Digital (completed project) UK Medical Heritage Library (completed project) Should universities build their own LLMs for academic research? Post author By Peter Findlay Post date January 31, 2024 No Comments on Should universities build their own LLMs for academic research? Taking bold steps A recent THE article by Sorin Adam Matei proposes that academia could invest in building its own LLMs to consume data from verifiable sources. I’m wondering if the UK university community thinks this is something we should invest in to ensure we feel confident that this valuable technology fulfills sector requirements. Governments […] Tags Artificial Intelligence Over £1 million in savings – Celebrating the DAC group purchasing scheme Post author By Karen Colbron Post date January 15, 2024 No Comments on Over £1 million in savings – Celebrating the DAC group purchasing scheme Since 2017, the digital archival collections group purchasing scheme has been helping Jisc members to purchase primary source content for use in learning, teaching and research in an affordable and transparent way. Participating organizations have collectively saved over £1 million since the scheme began. It removes the need to negotiate with publishers as members can […] Tags Affordability , Group purchasing , Learning and teaching , Research , UK Higher Education Join our next webinar to discuss AI ready library collections; the practicalities Post author By Peter Findlay Post date January 10, 2024 No Comments on Join our next webinar to discuss AI ready library collections; the practicalities Back in November we were joined by about 180 people to discuss how the Higher Education library community might be bolder in providing machine ready collections, in support of research, and to feel more confident with the impending introduction of AI into the community. You can see a recording with transcript of that session, but […] Tags Artificial Intelligence Categories Uncategorized Machine ready collections, more data from libraries please! Post author By Peter Findlay Post date December 18, 2023 No Comments on Machine ready collections, more data from libraries please! As reported in a previous post A couple of weeks ago we were pleased to be joined by 180 people for our Getting Your Collections AI Ready webinar. The focus of the session was on how academic libraries can get their collections online in forms consumable by people and machines. Though AI was in […] Tags Artificial Intelligence Categories Uncategorized Machine ready collections and fighting the AI hype Post author By Peter Findlay Post date November 27, 2023 No Comments on Machine ready collections and fighting the AI hype Recent podcast draws the crowds Last Wednesday we were pleased to be joined by 180 people for our Making Your Collections AI Ready webinar. The focus of the session was on how academic libraries can get their collections online in forms consumable by people and machines. We heard from Ines Byrne of the National […] Tags Artificial Intelligence New episodes of, Is AI for me? Perspective from the humanities Post author By Peter Findlay Post date November 1, 2023 No Comments on New episodes of, Is AI for me? Perspective from the humanities Is AI for me? Perspectives from the humanities, is a mini-series that is part of the Jisc Research Talk podcasts. There’s been an outburst of AI talk over the last year, but it’s not often that we hear about what it means to engage with AI in the context of the humanities. Over six episodes, […] Tags archives and special collections , Artificial Intelligence Categories Uncategorized Critical skills are vital as AI technologies become embedded in day to day working Post author By Peter Findlay Post date September 18, 2023 No Comments on Critical skills are vital as AI technologies become embedded in day to day working Map data and developing a critical gaze I was pleased to talk with Prof Leif Isaksen, Professor in Digital Humanities at the University of Exeter, about computational approaches to research and some of the potential impacts of AI on Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS). The research talk podcast forms part of a miniseries […] Tags Artificial Intelligence , digital humanities , Digital skills Categories Uncategorized Some thoughts on AI policies for librarians Post author By Peter Findlay Post date August 23, 2023 No Comments on Some thoughts on AI policies for librarians The fear of AI The focus of this post is the fears we have of AI technologies and what we might do about them. Having spoken to lots of librarians about AI, it is clear that many are concerned about the technologies but do not have time to address their fears in practical ways. Policy […] Tags Artificial Intelligence Developing policies and infrastructure for data-centric research Post author By Peter Findlay Post date August 8, 2023 1 Comment on Developing policies and infrastructure for data-centric research Artificial Intelligence: Where does it fit into your library strategy?” Back in April five UK library sector leaders debated this topic. The debate was followed by a workshop at which participants proposed nine potential strategic actions to address skills and knowledge gaps for librarians to help prepare the sector for AI. Following on from the […] Tags Artificial Intelligence Want to do some interesting research? Why not learn to code? Post author By Peter Findlay Post date July 28, 2023 No Comments on Want to do some interesting research? Why not learn to code? Tobias Blanke, Professor of Humanities and AI at the University of Amsterdam, suggests that everyone can benefit from learning to code. As digital skills are becoming ever more vital, we worked with the Programming Historian (PH) and The National Archives to develop tutorial articles focused on computational skills for digital collections. A partnership to support computational […] Tags Artificial Intelligence Categories Uncategorized Academic libraries and archives – engaging with computational methods Post author By Peter Findlay Post date July 12, 2023 No Comments on Academic libraries and archives – engaging with computational methods This post forms part of our signposting series for collections as data, AI and computational approaches to Arts and Humanities for libraries and archives. Nice clear AI information Here’s a nice simple guide to AI from the BBC and you can also try our very own Explore AI site to try your hand at some […] Tags Artificial Intelligence Categories Uncategorized Podcast series on Artificial Intelligence and the humanities Post author By Peter Findlay Post date June 12, 2023 No Comments on Podcast series on Artificial Intelligence and the humanities Is AI for me? Perspectives from the humanities is a new podcast mini-series that is part of the Jisc Research Talk podcasts. There’s been an outburst of AI-talk in the last few months, but it’s not often that we hear about what it means to engage with AI in the context of the humanities. Over six episodes, […] Tags Artificial Intelligence The National Library of Sweden embraces AI Post author By Peter Findlay Post date June 7, 2023 1 Comment on The National Library of Sweden embraces AI Why are we only talking about ChatGPT? This...