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SUMMARY:Research Cafe: Unlocking Historical Archives with AI - Opportunit
 ies and Challenges
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for an informal research café exploring how AI can sh
 ape and affect historical archives.\nRecent advances in AI have made it 
 feasible to automatically analyse unstructured content at scale\, includ
 ing large collections of cultural heritage data that come in the form of
  texts and/or images.\n\nAt this event you will have the chance to hear 
 from a range of expert speakers exploring the various ways in which AI c
 ould disrupt how we store\, manage and present archives and collections.
 \n\nThrough lightning talks and a panel discussion attendees will find o
 ut about: the opportunities\, challenges and risks that AI presents to r
 esearchers and practitioners working with archives\; how AI can drive th
 e greater accessibility and utility of archives for new groups of users\
 , including students\, stakeholder communities and the wider public\; wh
 at future archives might look like.\n\nResearchers\, who were part of th
 e AHRC-funded project Our Heritage\, Our Stories\, will discuss natural 
 language processing (NLP) methods\, which were developed to make the met
 adata in community archives more searchable. Similarly\, the MediaQuery 
 project team will highlight how they were able to enrich the content of 
 audio-visual data with annotations automatically produced by AI models.\
 n\nYou will also hear from practitioners from University of Manchester l
 ibraries and archives\, who will provide insights in how AI can and will
  be used to make archives and library collections more digitally accessi
 ble.\n\nBefore the talks and discussions\, attendees can view the AI at 
 Manchester exhibition in the Samuel Alexander glass corridor\, which sho
 wcases AI research being undertaken by University of Manchester early-ca
 reer researchers.\n\nThis event will be chaired and moderated by Constan
 ce Smith (Deputy Director\, Creative Manchester) and Riza Batista-Navarr
 o (Creative Industries and Innovation/CreaTech Theme Lead\, Creative Man
 chester).\n\n\nAgenda\n\n12:30 - 13:00: Lunch\, registration & viewing o
 f AI at Manchester exhibition\n\n13:00 - 13:10: Welcome from Creative Ma
 nchester by Dr Riza Batista-Navarro\n\n13:10 - 14:00: Lightning talks wi
 th Dr Ben Wiggins\, Prof Hannah Barker\, Dr Riza Batista-Navarro\, Dr Th
 omas Flavel and Prof Guyda Armstrong\n\n14:00 - 14:15: Audience Q&A\n\n1
 4:15 - 15:00: Panel discussion with Dr Constance Smith (Moderator)\, Dr 
 Ben Wiggins\, Prof Hannah Barker\, Dr Riza Batista-Navarro and Rachel He
 therington\n\n15:00 - 15:15: Digital archives at the University of Manch
 ester Library with Gail Millin-Chalabi\n\n15:15 - 15:30: Closing words\n
 \n\nSpeakers\n\nBen Wiggins (Senior Lecturer of History and Library and 
 Archive Studies)\n\nHannah Barker (Professor of British History)\n\nRiza
  Batista-Navarro (Senior Lecturer in Text Mining and Creative Industries
  and Innovation/CreaTech Research Theme Lead\, Creative Manchester)\n\nT
 homas Flavel (Research Associate\, Creative Manchester)\n\nGuyda Armstro
 ng (Director of the John Rylands Research Institute and Library)\n\nGail
  Millin-Chalabi (Head of Digital Reach\, The University of Manchester Li
 brary)\n\nRachel Hetherington (Community Archivist\, Manchester Historie
 s)\n\n\nAccessibility\nIf you have particular access or dietary needs\, 
 please let us know in advance by providing details when registering for 
 your ticket or by emailing creative@manchester.ac.uk\n\n\nAbout Creative
  Manchester\nCreative Manchester is an interdisciplinary research platfo
 rm based at The University of Manchester. The platform champions researc
 h in creativity and creative practice\, bringing together research commu
 nities with external stakeholders to explore new research areas and addr
 ess strategic opportunities. Please visit the website for more informati
 on: https://www.creative.manchester.ac.uk/
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:SG.16\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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