Society of American Archivists (SAA) 2024 Annual Meeting

Session 803: The Impact of AI on the Future of Archival Work

Chicago: Saturday, August 17 ** 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM ** Salon C 1-4

Presentations covered themes of AI and Generative AI using:

  • Image Segmentation and Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR)
  • Generative AI with ChatGPT
  • Ethics in AI and Trustworthy AI
In person presenters (left to right): Richard Marciano, Lori Perine, Greg Jansen
Remote presenters: (top / left to right) Bill Underwood, Anne Gilliland & (bottom) Rajesh Kumar Gnanasekaran

The session was attended by over 240 attendees. Attendees were from 7 countries (US, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Lebanon, Qatar, and UAE) and 40 states.

At this event, we also launched the HERITAGE-AI Initiative: Harnessing Enhanced Research & Instructional Technologies for Archival Generative Exploration using AI (https://heritage-ai.org/).

SPEAKERS:
Richard Marciano
  • Title: Intro: AI & Archives
  • Bio: Professor @ U. Maryland iSchool & Director of the Advanced Information Collaboratory (AIC)
Anne J. Gilliland
  • Title: AI: Considerations and Concerns for Archival Work
  • Bio: Professor @ UCLA & Director Center for Information as Evidence
Greg Jansen
  • Title: Techniques to Segment and Filter 1950s Census Forms (w. WWII Japanese American Incarceration)
  • Bio: Research Software Architect @ AIC / UMD & @ Advanced Research Institute for Intelligence & Security (ARLIS)
Rajesh Kumar Gnanasekaran
  • Title: Conversing with the Past: Legacy of Slavery with ChatGPT
    • Slides — Movie: see Lori Perine
  • Bio: Assistant Director of AI Solutions, Division of IT @ U. Maryland
Lori Perine
Bill Underwood
  • Title: Can GPT-4 Think Computationally about Digital Archival Practices?
  • Bio: Computer Scientist with expertise in AI, NLP, ML, and Machine Vision applied to e-records and e-archives