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 […] The post Privacy And Copyright Considerations Using GPT Models appeared first on FromThePage Blog ..read more

I recently saw a presentation by Dick Kasperowski and Olof Karsvall about research they’d done on The Detective Section, a crowdsourcing project at the Swedish National Archives. Their findings contradicted some of the conventional wisdom that volunteers introduce bias into results when they bring their own subject-matter expertise to citizen science tasks, and that made […] The post Connection Makes Quality appeared first on FromThePage Blog ..read more

I’ve got two useful AI tidbits for you this month: The first is the best explanation of how large language models work. This is a pretty opaque topic that few attempt to understand, but I think it’s important to grasp – even in metaphor – how systems like ChatGPT work.  When you understand how they […] The post How LLMs Work & A Handwritten Text Recognition Sandbox appeared first on FromThePage Blog ..read more

Last month, Ben and Sara Brumfield hosted a webinar to introduce the new AI-assist feature: Handwritten Text Recognition. The presentation, linked below in a video and embedded as slides, presents a walkthrough of the new HTR feature. This was one of FromThePage's most-attended webinars, and it was exciting to have so many people join. You […] The post AI-Assist in FromThePage: Using HTR in People-Centered Transcription appeared first on FromThePage Blog ..read more

In honor of Black History Month, we asked some of the institutions who run projects uncovering the names and histories of African Americans on FromThePage the following question, "What do you tell volunteers who encounter offensive or racist material in your projects?" Sonya Coleman at Library of Virginia summed it up with a meme: From https://twitter.com/libshipwreck/status/1351308129062051845 […] The post Guiding Transcribers: Addressing Racist Material in Crowdsourced Archival Projects appeared first on FromThePage Blog ..read more

Dr. Aaron Taylor of Native Bound Unbound kindly took the time to answer questions and discuss their projects and experience using the platform with Sara Brumfield of FromThePage. Aaron Taylor is the deputy director of Native Bound Unbound. First, tell us about your documents. Native Bound Unbound is gathering a wide variety of documents, all […] The post An Interview with Dr. Aaron Taylor of Native Bound Unbound appeared first on FromThePage Blog ..read more

We recently hosted a webinar entitled "10 Ways AI Will Change Archives," and today, we're sharing the insights from that presentation with you. AI is a transformative force, and often scary. Today, though, we’re sharing specific examples of using AI for good – allowing more people to find and interact with archival resources.  1. Improving […] The post 10 Ways AI Will Change Archives appeared first on FromThePage Blog ..read more

We've been talking about review & quality control in the last couple of newsletters. Today, we're going to talk about one of the simplest ways to do a quick review for quality: scanning spreadsheets of transcribed data. Our very first field-based transcription project was the World War I Service Cards project at the Alabama Department […] The post Make Review Easier Part 3: Exporting & Scanning Spreadsheets Of Data appeared first on FromThePage Blog ..read more

I recently returned from the AI4LAM/Fantastic Futures conference, where the goal of ethical or responsible AI was a theme in a number of the presentations. For an implementer like me, however, responsible AI can't be just a call for action. I need examples, criteria, how-tos on how to build ethical AI solutions. At this stage […] The post What is Responsible AI? appeared first on FromThePage Blog ..read more

People often worry about the quality of crowdsourced transcriptions – and we get it. Strangers, from the internet, working on your material? Yikes! But here’s the deal: many of them won’t be strangers long. The intrinsic motivation our volunteers have and their understanding of how important your material is to historians and genealogists, makes them […] The post Make Reviewing Easier appeared first on FromThePage Blog ..read more