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Andrii Nugged
Cultural heritage, Research and education, AI development
Learn I want to expand and take a part in .fi AI community.
AI usage for Libraries. Adopting AI tech to develop Koha Open Source ILS. Using AI in our Open Source development team. I am preparing talks for KohaCon'24 and tprc.us on this topic.
Share 36 yrs in IT, 2:4624/0.
I am at the core of Perl and Koha communities (growth coordinator and facilitator). Herald and harbinger of the AGI/ASI advent :). Am aware of all current AI Open Source models, GPT-4/Claude/Gemini, heavy user and end-user trainer (prompting, API, local computer run). Wrote Elisa-forks in Prolog in 1991 and have haunted for machine sentience since then :P. Was the biggest PDA/PalmOS/PocketPC/Symbian ua/ru community creator: ladoshki.com
Run/Swim/Bike and Run4IQ.com propagator (body->IQ).
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Loren Johnson
Wikimedia and other open knowledge, AI development
Learn Make connections
Share Conversations
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Jennifer 8. Lee
Cultural heritage, Wikimedia and other open knowledge, AI development, Creative fields
Learn Tools for making Wikipedia editing more efficient and less tedious.
Share Fundraising
Pro/explorer
Johan Jönsson
Wikimedia and other open knowledge
Learn What are the best possible uses for AI-related tools in relation to the Wikimedia wikis? What could we do, what should we do, what shouldn't we do? Are there ways we can use this which feel safe from the perspective of encyclopedic quality?
Where should we experiment?
Happy to talk about the current AI experiment from the Future Audiences team at the Wikimedia Foundation, Citation Needed.Share Understanding of the Wikimedia wikis, the Wikimedia Foundation and a little bit about how we think about AI.
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Ari Häyrinen
Research and education
Learn Dreaming of workflow for digital humanities
Share Testing
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Ona de Gibert
Research and education, AI development
Learn Learn how to improve MT in wikimedia and make it open-source
Share AI, open-source, MT, NLP, ML
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Tove Ørsted
Cultural heritage, Wikimedia and other open knowledge, Research and education
Learn Where does data come from? Who is represented? How can we make data better? How can cultural organisations have an inpact by using open licensing?
Share
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Tapani Sainio
Cultural heritage, Public policy
Learn Role of AI and other emerging technologies in culture/heritage policies
Share
Newbie
Lù
Research and education, Creative fields
Learn How AI can be applied to sustain and manage open archive
Share data visualisation, interaction design, collaborative & participatory design
Light explorer - I create concepts and yield endless critical discussions, not executing or using tools s
Liisi
Creative fields
Learn Update on AI fields ( been home with the child), cultural heritage and preservation, political and complexed scenarios, future oriented scenarios, Anything from traffic to methods, uncertainty, experimentation , / I am pretty much open to any kind of discussion topic
Share I am at best in reflecting and creating discussions, concepts and critical thinking besides all kinds of background research. I am used to multidisciplinary team work .
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Nivas
Cultural heritage, Wikimedia and other open knowledge, Research and education, Creative fields
Learn Learn about implementation of AI in education programs, and Policy building for a safer AI
Share Understanding educational institutions and practices in India, Tech design and planning,
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Tuukka Hastrup
Wikimedia and other open knowledge
Learn use of data from Wikidata via LLMs
Share Wikimedia APIs
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Eero Hyvönen
Cultural heritage, Research and education, AI development
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Bhuvana Meenakshi
Cultural heritage, Wikimedia and other open knowledge, Research and education, AI development, Creative fields
Learn I am eager to learn and share my inputs on how AI is influencing on local projects under Open GLAM and also how to encourage more women tech enthusiasts to participatin in these projects.
Share * Technical inputs
- Connect with similar associates
- Anything on FOSS/Open Knowledge movements
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Tuomas Nolvi
Cultural heritage
Learn Learn how I could use machine learning in cataloging.
Share I can share our experiences in Helsinki City Museum primarely concerging using the speech-to-text tools in museum context.
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Ferdinando Traversa
Wikimedia and other open knowledge
Learn I'd like to learn new strategies to involve GLAM institutions to Wikimedia projects
Share I can share my experience in cooperating with GLAM and Education institutions and as a WLM organiser
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Joel Rahkonen
Research and education, Creative fields
Learn I would like to network and learn about AI in the creative fields.
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Newbie
Julia Brungs
Cultural heritage, Wikimedia and other open knowledge
Learn -
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Mikko Lipsanen
Cultural heritage, AI development
Learn Different ways and methods for using AI based tools to analyze and improve accessibility of historical data.
Share Experience of using different machine learning libraries and applications for a variety of NLP and computer vision tasks, experience of working with historical document data.
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Susanna Ånäs
Cultural heritage, Wikimedia and other open knowledge, Public policy, Creative fields
Learn I would like to identify the ways in which partnerships between memory organizations and the open ecosystem are vital to the future internet.
Share Navigating Wikimedia projects, facilitation, introductions
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Janne Peltola
AI development, Public policy
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Vertti Luostarinen
Research and education, AI development, Creative fields
Learn How to guarantee data transparency with GenAI?
Share technical skills and knowledge of open-source AI ecosystems, AI applications in media industries
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Sebastian Köhler
Cultural heritage
Learn What are the implications of AI on the arts and research in the arts? What role can cultural heritage organizations have in the AI revolution?
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Vladimir Kuparinen, SMART PAPER evangelist
Research and education
Learn Opinions on my idea of massive distributed copying & sharing of books Person-to-Person, as exception from copyright limitations, via Transkribus.eu and tax deduction incentive
Share Digital printing of Books-Of-One, i.e. on-demand in one copy, for mass access to books not available locally (Long Tail books)
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Jens Brännbqck
Cultural heritage, Research and education, AI development
Learn Risk and responsibility
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Kevin Payravi
Cultural heritage, Wikimedia and other open knowledge
Learn How AI can help (and hurt!) GLAMs and Wikipedia editors
Share Software engineer and Wikimedian
Newbie
Saga Jacksen
Cultural heritage
Learn How should the ethical perspective be considered when developing AI tools? How does the use of AI impact the reliability of services?
Share UX Research, UX Design, Heritage & Cultural studies
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Kaj Arnö
Wikimedia and other open knowledge, AI development
Learn Applications of AI related to open data and/or databases
Share Using AI to grow the world of Open Data; storing AI vectors in databases
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Robert Silén
Cultural heritage, Wikimedia and other open knowledge, AI development
Learn Improving Wikipedia content with AI
Share Share my experience of coding pythong to improve Wikipedia pages based on given source
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Alicja Peszkowska
Research and education, Public policy
Learn I would like to explore possible positive scenarios for what GLAM institutions, creatives, and the public could gain from participating in the creation and governance of AI systems. I would also understand what are the no-goes for us, where we would rather say that AI development is harming rather than nurturing these fields.
Share I am a communicator, community builder and my background is in cultral studies. I currently work in a think tank working on European policy issues related to the Digital Public Space (and AI related regulation).
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Leo Lahti / @antagomir
Cultural heritage, Research and education, AI development, Creative fields
Learn new horizons
Share statistical and probabilistic programming; scientific data analysis; computational humanities; open data science; machine learning;
Newbie
Riitta Peltonen
Cultural heritage
Learn What possibilities there are for using AI with cultural heritage materials, especially to help searching, but also how to provide them to enable people to try their own ideas with them
Share Understand what cultural heritage materials are available through Gonna services
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Maria Virtanen
Cultural heritage
Learn Interacting with digital cultural heritage - what new possibilities will AI bring?
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Susanna Eklund
Cultural heritage
Learn New ideas on the use of AI in the context of Finna. Sustainability issues related to AI. Promoting multilingualism
Share I'm a generalist full of ideas. I just need someone to make them happen. Expert in museum content, cultural heritage, sustainability issues and Finna.
Newbie
Anton Obozhyn
Wikimedia and other open knowledge, Creative fields
Learn I am new to the AI, but very interested in it. The AI will start a new technological era (just like the Internet or steam engines), so it it very important to be competent in it.
As a longterm wikipedian/wikimedian, I see that the AI will change the Wikimedia Projects and the world around them, so I want to know how should we prepare and what to expect.
As a programmer from the game development industry, I also want to know what should the industry expect from the emerging of the AI.Share I am an advanced wikipedian and a professional programmer (however, not yet very competent in AI).
between explorer and pro.
Raúl Vázquez
Research and education, AI development
Learn I am open to new ideas. I am interested in knowing the perspective of cultural institutions on AI and how they want to incorporate these tools in their activities/art creation/community building. My phd was in Neural models for Natural Language Processing
Share Generally well versed in python, specifically for building AI tools.
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Jana Pejoska
Research and education, AI development
Learn Societal Implications, Ethics in AI design, User Perspectives and Experiences, Policy and Future of Tech
Share Service Design, UX Research, Experience Design, Design Strategy, Emerging Tech, AI and Machine Learning
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Sarianna Silvonen
Cultural heritage, Research and education
Learn AI for libraries, ethics of AI, copyright issues, reliability of AI-generated data
Share Documentation skills (Finnish and English), working with (library) metadata
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Niko Partanen
Cultural heritage, Research and education
Learn Inclusion and support of minority languages when AI tools are developed. Collaboration with the representatives of the language communities and ensuring that the rights questions are addressed.
Share Ontologies, minority language digital services
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Juho Inkinen
Cultural heritage, AI development
Learn Real use-cases
Share Python, OpenShift
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Piia
Cultural heritage, Creative fields
Learn How to improve search features with AI?
Share Finna, archival metadata and materials, metadata and searches in Finna generally, design thinking
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Johan Pyy
Cultural heritage
Learn How GLAM organizations can contribute to a better AI (non-biased, training data etc). How to use AI to make better metadata.
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Andrew Lih
Cultural heritage, Wikimedia and other open knowledge, AI development
Learn Impact of AI on addressing knowledge equity opportunities within the Wikimedia movement
Share I helped create the main AI coordination pages on English Wikipedia and help document some of the best practices and experiments in the Wikimedia movement. Happy to help document more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Artificial_intelligence
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Camila Hergatacorzian
Research and education
Learn The use if AI in city of helsinki library network, the case of Obotti and IMMs
Share Participatory Design
Design Justice
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Joris Quarshie
Wikimedia and other open knowledge, AI development
Learn The AI Sauna event offers a chance to explore how AI can revolutionize Open Culture. I will like to learn and discuss how AI can improve GLAM institutions, create and curate content, be implemented ethically, and foster collaboration between AI researchers and cultural organizations.
Share I can share my experience on building custom machine learning models which are then being integrated into tools.
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Hannu Häkkinen
Cultural heritage
Learn Discuss common objectives for the CH sector regarding AI. Evaluate the impact of different options. Discuss about open shared services and their development. Discuss the ethics of AI (commercial services vs. open-source services and their dependencies), etc.
Share General knowledge of the CH sector, collection management, digitization, legislation, and random expertise with AV technologies.
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Mats Sjöberg
Research and education, AI development
Learn AI and supercomputing
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Professional Explorer!
Nat Hernández Clavijo
Wikimedia and other open knowledge, Research and education, Creative fields
Learn How AI tools can help us identify knowledge gaps and articles that need improvement in Wikipedia. How can we use AI to gamify contributions to Wikidata.
Share I have experience with Python and Pandas, PHP, JS, Wikidata Query Service, Toolforge and tools like Google Colab.
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Jon Amar (they/them)
Wikimedia and other open knowledge
Learn How do the fields and services surrounding AI and semantic data grow together to benefit open knowledge for years to come?
Share I am the product manager of Wikibase Suite, the docker release of the open source Wikibase software which Wikidata and Wikibase Cloud are built on top of.
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Galder Gonzalez
Cultural heritage, Wikimedia and other open knowledge
Learn We are starting a GLAM project with museums, but AI is not extremely well developed in a minority language like Basque. I would like to explore new ways to present and mix the information we are going to have.
Share I have used AI to generate images for mythology related articles, and also have some expertise with the use of those in education projects.
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Minna Turtiainen
Cultural heritage
Learn Ethics
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Micke Hindsberg
Creative fields
Learn AI's effects on creative and information work as well as the broader effects on the creative and information businesses, and by proxy on society.
Share Deep understanding of media and the potential of AI within the field. I am also currently doing an experiment to build AI-agents teams to assist in expert work.
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Federico "Nemo" Leva
Cultural heritage, Wikimedia and other open knowledge, Research and education, Public policy
Learn Internationalisation
Share Internationalisation considerations, public policy and copyright policy, library and open science sources, ethics.
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Ideophagous
Wikimedia and other open knowledge
Learn Opportunities for using AI in Wikimedia projects, as well as for supporting languages with weak Internet presence
Share Writing and deploying bots on Wikimedia projects, using LLMs on a basic level
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George Oates
Cultural heritage, Wikimedia and other open knowledge, Research and education, Creative fields
Learn How to manage authentic v synthetic declarations going forward
Share Design, product, user research, UX/UI, digital cultural heritage, giant photo collections
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Osma Suominen
Cultural heritage, Wikimedia and other open knowledge, AI development
Learn New opportunities for applyin AI in GLAM
Share Annif/FintoAI, all kinds of library (meta)data, linked data, machine learning, LLMs, fine-tuning, Python, Jupyter notebooks...
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Mikko Lappalainen
Cultural heritage
Learn New AI based discovery services for cultural heritage
Share
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Fiona Romeo
Cultural heritage, Wikimedia and other open knowledge
Learn I would like to learn more about how cultural heritage organisations are approaching the threats and opportunities of AI. How does it influence their approach to open access and Wikimedia projects?
Share Partnership building, program design, scenario planning
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Connor Benedict
Cultural heritage, Public policy, Creative fields
Learn How Wikimedia is developing it's policy and practices related to AI and open access to culture (especially with WikiData and Wikimedia Commons)
Share
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Edward Betts
Wikimedia and other open knowledge
Learn Tools for GLAM
Share Tools; OpenStreetMap; Internet Archive
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Olea
Cultural heritage, Wikimedia and other open knowledge
Learn I'm really open to anything.
Share I made significant work around heritage in Wikidata/ESwiki/Commons/ESvoy
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Kimmo Virtanen
Cultural heritage, Wikimedia and other open knowledge
Learn howto use AI with finnish content
Share i can help with Python, API:s and Wikimedia
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Christos Varvantakis
Cultural heritage, Wikimedia and other open knowledge, Research and education
Learn I would like to explore and engage in current debates around the use and impact of AI into GLAM and the Digital Commons. I would also hope to be able to explore the intersections of such debates with the Linked Open Data web.
Share I'd be happy to talk about:
- Linked Open Data - Wikibase and Wikidata - Partnerships - Data Sovereignty - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Digital Cultural Heritage - Social Sciences
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Bart Magnus
Cultural heritage, Wikimedia and other open knowledge
Learn Developments of and possibilities in AI that can be a mutual enrichment for both open content on Wikimedia platforms and for GLAM workflows.
Share data cleaning, image and data uploads via OpenRefine, legal and ethical issues, some experience in experimental AI projects with GLAMS.