#FF2025

Adi Keinan-Schoonbaertadi@glammr.us
2026-01-26

Fantastic Futures 2025 now seems like a distant memory, which makes it even more enjoyable to read this blog post and recall all of the brilliant papers and inspiring interactions with colleagues! Slides, posters and recordings now available, enjoy! bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/fant

#ff2025 #AI4LAM #britishlibrary

Digital Scholarship at the BLBL_DigiSchol@techhub.social
2026-01-14

Have you written anything about the British Library and @AI4LAM 's Fantastic Futures conference? We'd love to share your links if so - let us know! #FF2025

2025-12-24

'Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring -
Not even a mouse...

Because everyone was watching the videos from the 2025 Fantastic Futures conference! youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMW

Two days of talks on AI and machine learning in libraries, archives and museums #AI4LAM #FF2025

Jörg Lehmannjrglmn
2025-12-10

pickings:

@danielvanstrien has published his workshop slides on open source AI for institutions

danielvanstrien.xyz/slides.html

I consider his readworthy contribution as the AI complement to my reflections on open data (and their shades) published here:

mmk.sbb.berlin/2024/06/21/open

Jez 🍞🌹:heart_autistic_pride:petrichor@digipres.club
2025-12-08

📣 While I've been busy at #FF2025, my colleagues Blanka & Hannah have been putting together an exciting webinar on "The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data and Data Sovereignty", coming up this Thursday 11 December! It's packed with speakers and perspectives from Australia & NZ, North America and Europe and completely free!

For timezone reasons it's split into a morning and an evening session, so feel free to join us for one or both.

More details here: mastodon.social/@dariaheu/1156

Jörg Lehmannjrglmn
2025-12-08

pickings:
This year has been extremely productive with regard to the AI & commons debate, as well as in view of the publication of open datasets in the public domain. My recommendations (1/3):

Paul Keller & Europeana Foundation: Publishing cultural heritage data in the age of AI, Dec 2025
openfuture.eu/publication/impu

Thomas Padilla et al: Public Interest Corpus Principles and Goals, Dec 2025
authorsalliance.org/2025/12/03

2025-12-07

Some photos from Fantastic Futures #FF2025 uploaded on the Lizzy line wifi to Heathrow... looks like some doubles, which I'll sort out from Melbourne flickr.com/search/?user_id=123

If you're in a photo and don't want to be, let me know and I'll remove it from view

2025-12-05

One final thank you to everyone who made #FF2025 so good - it was a huge team effort! Safe travels to the non-Londoners! I'm off to Melbourne for a few weeks - happy to share the 'best of' over coffee with folk there!

2025-12-05

#FF2025 handing over to #FF2026!

Digital Scholarship at the BLBL_DigiSchol@techhub.social
2025-12-05

Safe travels to all the #ff2025 #ai4lam visitors from all of us in the British Library Digital Research Team! See you at Fantastic Futures 2026 in Washington D.C. next September!

Digital Scholarship at the BLBL_DigiSchol@techhub.social
2025-12-05

That's a wrap on three awesome days discussing all things Artificial Intelligence in, for, and by Libraries, Archives and Museums! Thank you #ff2025 presenters and participants for joining us and making it such a smashing event. Keep an eye on the #ai4lam YouTube channel for recordings youtube.com/@ai4lam120/videos. There are lots of ways to stay connected with the #ai4lam community throughout the year, join today and we'll see you at future community calls and events! sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/h

Martin Kalfatovicudcmrk@mas.to
2025-12-05

Dr. Ines Vodopivec (Secretary General of AI4LAM) and Mike Keller (Stanford University Libraries) closing #FF2025 at the @bldigischol.bsky.social

2025-12-05

That's @dorothyjberry delivering an incredible closing keynote at #FF2025

Some focusing questions:
How do we describe archives?
Why do we describe archives?
What are we trying to automate?

A light-skinned Black woman is just visible behind a podium on a stage. Her slides ask:

How do we describe archives?
Why do we describe archives?
What are we trying to automate?
2025-12-05

I loved @jasonclark.bsky.social 's #FF2025 'problem statement':

'We were given access to a weirdly confident intern that can’t explain how they got their answers.

It is a seamless interface that breaks search interaction + retrieval patterns.'

bsky.app/profile/jasonclark.bs

2025-12-05

The list of #FF2025 participants* should now be available if you're logged into conftool

* only people who've opted in, of course!

Martin Kalfatovicudcmrk@mas.to
2025-12-05

My lightning talk at #FF2025, “Refactoring the @IIIF Artificial Intelligence Community“ zenodo.org/records/17831102

2025-12-05

Lightning talks include IIIF's AI/ML working group presented by the excellent Martin Kalfatovic conftool.org/fantastic-futures #FF2025

2025-12-05

Ethical Considerations Around Machine Learning-Engaged Online Participatory Research - poster from Zooniverse community at #FF2025 zenodo.org/records/17779992

2025-12-05

What would be some of the concrete and *realistic* terms/features of “responsible AI” practices in your opinion (not of the pie-in-the-sky type)? I would love to hear from folks at #FF2025 if you have thoughts on this topic. Thank you!

Jörg Lehmannjrglmn
2025-12-05

I am so sorry that I have to tell that I already had to leave
… otho please know that I have the ambitious plan to reach Berlin/Germany by train TODAY using EuroStar and (being an adventurous traveler) Deutsche Bahn, thus showing real chuzpe.

Thank you so much to all the incredible organisers of this superb conference, especially @mia and @nfitzger - very much looking forward to see all of you again on one of the upcoming Fantastic Futures!

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