OCR

GLAM Data: Access, Refining, Analysis and Visualization

0900-1000 ET | 1500-1600 CET – Thursday 6 November, 2025

*The webinar is kindly hosted by the Royal National Library of Denmark (https://www.kb.dk/) and organised by Kat Hoffman Gasser (khg). Once you have registered you should receive an email from Kat(khg) confirming your registration, a zoom link for the webinar and how to add the webinar to your online calendar.

Registration link for the webinar*:  https://kbdk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rggZq6ziQIyYI7_duR6KrQ/

The agenda for the webinar will include 3 presentations and an opportunity for questions:

*Agenda*

i. Introduction (10 mins)

ii. Presentations (45 mins)

1 – DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALISATION: ‘I get by with a little help from AI’
by Filipe Bento, Head of Digital Resources and User Support, Library, Document Management and Museology Services of the Universidade de Aveiro (UAveiro) and UAveiro RDM Center’ executive management

2 – FIXING THE FLAWS: RE-DOING OCR FOR OLD NEWSPAPERS
by Max Odsbjerg Pedersen, Special Consultant, Aarhus University

3 – BRIDGING AI AND LIBRARIES: REFINING & RELEASING LARGE SCALE LIBRARY DATASETS
by Matteo Cargnelutti, Principal Engineer, Institutional Data Initiative at the Harvard Law School Library and
Catherine Brobston, Program Director, Institutional Data Initiative at the Harvard Law School Library

iii. Final remarks (5 mins)

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On behalf of the GLAM Labs Community

Details of previous GLAM Labs webinar:
AI-Powered Metadata, Hackathons, APIs & Notebooks, May 8, 2025 can be found on:
Zenodo – https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17250371
and YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRpIW29NwYINQOqlpFJcff1QRyRzETIM7