What does AI mean for libraries and how could libraries pave the way for ethical AI? KBLab reflects on these questions in an article in the Open Access journal College & Research Libraries.
With the increasingly rapid appearance of new techniques over the
past few years, the role of AI within the library is becoming a hot
topic today. Yet despite a growing interest among librarians, there
remains surpisingly little research devoted to the subject.
We have sought to fill this gap at KBLab by conducting research focused
specifically upon AI in the context of libraries. The aim with our new
article, Making and using AI in the library: creating a BERT model
at the National Library of Sweden, is to show how AI techniques
create new possibilities for processing and organizing information at
scale in a library (e.g. though automated classification and enriched
metadata), but also how library collections might be used to make even
better AI tools in the future.
In this way, we have sought to nuance the image that otherwise tends to predominate of the library as a passive space for the application of AI solutions developed elsewhere. On the contrary, we argue that libraries can have an important roll to play in AI development, especially in relation to language technology (NLP) for other languages than English and Chinese. We hope that our text can lead to new and exciting conversations about the future role of AI in the library!
The article has been accepted for publication in the Open Access journal College & Research Libraries, but is available to read online as a preprint now (link to a downloadable PDF on SocArXiv).
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Fano & Haffenden (2022, Jan. 24). The KBLab Blog: KBLab publishes an article about AI in the library in C&RL. Retrieved from https://kb-labb.github.io/posts/2022-01-24-kblab-publishes-an-article-in-crl/
BibTeX citation
@misc{fano2022kblab, author = {Fano, Elena and Haffenden, Chris}, title = {The KBLab Blog: KBLab publishes an article about AI in the library in C&RL}, url = {https://kb-labb.github.io/posts/2022-01-24-kblab-publishes-an-article-in-crl/}, year = {2022} }