eLabs Events
Your First Crowdsourcing Project: A Webinar with FromThePage
July 10, 2025 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time
Images are a fundamental vehicle for the dissemination of cultural heritage, however until recently it has been very expensive and very error-prone to try to have machines understand those images in a meaningful way. With the introduction of vision-language models, there is a reasonably accurate and affordable method for machines to assist catalogers, archivists, curators, and researchers in mediating between image, data, and query. This presentation shows how Yale University is using AI in three different areas for cultural heritage: to extract information from images, to find and ameliorate errors and suggest improvements to data, and to translate user needs in natural language into system queries.
Join FromThePage on July 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM EDT for a presentation about AI in cultural heritage research from Robert Sanderson.
About the Speaker
Robert Sanderson works across Yale’s museums, libraries and archives to ensure digital knowledge and processing is both connected and consistent. He is the technical architect and leader for LUX, Yale’s cross-collection discovery platform built using the Linked Open Usable Data paradigm and technologies. He is on Yale’s AI Advisory Board, and has worked at the intersection of cultural heritage and information science / AI for much of his career. He is chair of the Linked Art working group in ICOM, long-standing editor for the IIIF specifications, and has been co-chair and editor of foundational W3C specifications. He has previously worked for the J. Paul Getty Trust, Stanford University, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
