LIDA 2027 conference seeks to address the AI challenge with the two inter-related themes:
Theme 1: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Ethical Institutional Response will focus on the potential of AI and uses of AI for good; on integrating values in AI research; and on how AI creates institutional capacity and development of new ways for engaging users. We ask for contributions that highlight programmatic research, development, and implementation but also critically examine the consequences on intellectual property, equity, and user privacy.
The topics will include but will not be limited to the following:
- Using AI in institutional settings
- AI for heritage management
- AI and digital preservation
- Metadata and applications for knowledge organization and processing using AI
- Collections as data and AI-ready corpora
- GLAM Labs as spaces for responsible AI experimentation
- AI and data privacy and security
- AI ethics and responsible use of AI-based technologies
- AI and sustainability
- AI for social good
- Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EDIB) in the age of AI
- AI and information integrity
- Identifying, analysis, and evaluation of sources of disinformation, misinformation, and malicious information
- AI literacy, education, and critical thinking
- Education of information professionals for the age of AI (skills and workforce development)
- Opportunities, limitations and risks of AI
- Open Science
- AI and scholarly and academic publishing
- AI and copyright, intellectual property, and authorship
- AI and research data
Theme 2: Emotion and Creativity will explore links between the subjective, unique, and local and the overall theme of artificial intelligence and the broader role of human emotion and creativity in the information environments. Contributions that focus on broader related topics of emotion and creativity in Library and Information studies will be considered as well.
The contributions will include but will not be limited to the following:
- Creative and artistic practices in GLAM contexts
- Technology, innovation and creativity
- AI and ethical creativity, authorship and responsible innovation
- Care, well-being and community care in GLAM contexts
- Eco-historical and re-envisioning projects and recreation of heritage and memory
- Communities of affinity and learning networks
- Community-centered collaborations and community stewardship ("slow archives")
- Libraries as safe spaces and places for play
- Design of library spaces, collections and services for well-being and inclusion
- Storytelling, playfulness, escape-rooms
- Analysis and critique of vocational awe, "library faith", professionalism and trust
- Emotion and creativity in community-based activities (citizen science, crowdsourcing, co-creation)
- Emotional dimensions of analogue/digitized heritage (trust, loss, authenticity of digital surrogates)
- Materiality and sensoriality of analogue/digitized primary sources