Research talk: Is AI for me? Perspectives from the humanities: librarians, researchers and collections in the age of artificial intelligence

We've almost reached the end of our miniseries, "Is AI for me? Perspectives from the humanities". In the fifth instalment, Huw Jones, head of the digital library unit and digital humanities coordinator at the University of Cambridge, joins us to discuss librarians, researchers and collections in the age of artificial intelligence. Huw's role has evolved beyond the library, being both the creator and the facilitator of digital content creation.

In this episode, Huw and Peter discuss the different ways to provide digital collections from common web delivery to AI-ready data, and they explore how AI might impact collection research and what it might mean for librarians to be confronted by an entire collection generated by AI. Together, they consider how digital methods allow librarians to learn new things about their collections and the value of seeing what is revealed through processes and techniques for engaging with collections.