Join us for a lively discussion as we consider if, when, and how to engage with artificial intelligence as part of the research process. We’ll take a behind-the-scenes look at how AI recognizes patterns in text, images, and audio and address ethical, legal, and practical considerations. Along the way, we’ll discuss bibliotecas in the broadest sense—we’ll consider examples from Archivo Mesoamericano and other digital humanities projects that use AI to transcribe audio in romance languages, create 3D models of cultural heritage objects, and identify narrative tropes across texts. There will be plenty of room for questions!
Speakers:
Celenia Graves (she/they) is a diversity resident at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign and is currently the Experimental Learning and Engagement Librarian for the Grainger Engineering Library and Information Center IDEA Lab makerspace. She leads comprehensive programming and outreach efforts to help bridge the digital and technical divide by focusing on educational engagement programs and initiatives to underserved and underrepresented communities. They have a background in public librarianship, metadata for special collections, and education. Celenia is a first-generation scholar whose research interests include accessibility, UX design, metadata, and website design.
Mary Borgo Ton is an Assistant Professor and Digital Humanities Librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research uses digital approaches to study screen-based media in the global south with a particular focus on nineteenth-century missionaries who traveled to Africa and Oceania with a magic lantern. She received her Ph.D. in British Literature from Indiana University with concentrations in Victorian Studies and the digital arts and humanities. She is a member of the Provost's Generative AI Center of Expertise working group on AI in research.
Food will be provided.