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The @institutionaldatainitiative.org at Harvard works with knowledge institutions to increase the availability, diversity, and responsible use of training data for AI. Reach out and join us.

Our goal is to develop methods and tools that can support expert staff at libraries everywhere, increasing the breadth of materials that can be digitized and the speed at which they’re made accessible to the public. Learn more at BPL: www.bpl.org/news/boston-...

Together, we’ll research opportunities to generate machine-readable representations of items, add searchable metadata, and begin the structuring of entire collections—all at the moment each item leaves the imaging station.

IDI and BPL are working to change this by collaborating at the outset of a large digitization project, exploring how AI might complement human expertise and strengthen the process in its earliest stages.

BPL is embarking on a new initiative to digitize hundreds of thousands of historic items. Conventional approaches to this scale lead to an impossible choice: sacrifice depth for breadth or drastically limit what gets digitized. AI tools can help, but they’re relegated to the end of the process.

With our digitization at Harvard Law School Library, we'll work to increase access to unique collections, such as the Supreme Court Records and Briefs that are critical to understanding decision-making at the highest U.S. court yet remain largely inaccessible.

If you're part of a library, university, or other knowledge institution and interested in working with a team of data scientists to refine and publish your data, we'd love to chat. And if you're a data scientist or community builder interested in working with institutions, we're hiring.

IDI is building a collection of large, impactful, and widely available datasets to increase AI’s accessibility and diversity while reaffirming institutions as stewards of knowledge.

The key is involving the institutions themselves in the conversation. Their missions are as much a reflection of the cultures they help to preserve as the data itself, and integrating them is critical as we look for new models to foster and interact with knowledge.

To learn more about the Institutional Data Initiative, read our launch announcement here: institutionaldatainitiative.org/hello-world....