Orcutt collaborates on AI project

Darby Orcutt, Assistant Head of Collections & Research Strategy, was invited to collaborate on a Mellon-funded planning project to explore potential use and consequences of artificial intelligence for discovery for the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Orcutt is an organizing faculty member of NC State's AI in Society Group.

The University Libraries at Virginia Tech and the Virginia Tech Center for Humanities and the National Archives and Records Administration convened a diverse group of archivists, librarians, humanists, technologists, information scientists, and computer scientists for an online workshop series to discuss and plan how artificial intelligence and machine learning could be used to ensure public access to the massive and ever-growing collection of government records in the NARA digital catalog.

The project report, entitled “Ensuring Scholarly Access to Government Archives and Records,” is now available.