Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Organisations

[AI-Generated Summary]: This open-access edited volume explores how artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming libraries and cultural heritage institutions. Bringing together experts from digital humanities, computer science, and heritage sectors across the UK, US and beyond, it examines innovative technologies including computer vision, ChatGPT, handwritten text recognition, and distant viewing. The book addresses how automated systems manage growing digitized collections, make records more accessible, and enable new research questions using large-scale digital collections as data, while helping professionals navigate current challenges and opportunities in preserving and providing access to cultural heritage.

  • Editors: Lise Jaillant, Claire Warwick, Paul Gooding, Katherine Aske, Glen Layne-Worthey, J. Stephen Downie
  • Publisher: UCL Press
  • Publication Date: June 12, 2025
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
  • Access: Open Access PDF