Join us in celebrating Archives Month and America's 250 with a series of free, virtual Lunch and Learn talks related to the different peoples of North Carolina, and the roles they have played in the country's history, and how we preserve related records. Our first talk will be next Wednesday!

SNCA Archives Month Lunch and Learns

October 1st, 12-1pm, Promise and Peril of Handwritten Text Recognition & Artificial Intelligence in Archives

Ben and Sara Brumfield, creators of From the Page, will be speaking about using AI for transcription of archival documents. Not all transcription is the same. Documents transcribed by humans or different kinds of AI have different strengths and weaknesses that affect how archives can use them responsibly. We'll go deep into three transcription methods: human transcription by staff or volunteers, handwritten text recognition via tools like Transkribus, and generative text from large language models like ChatGPT. Then we'll talk about where AI works and where it fails. Finally, we'll look at two ways we are trying to implement responsible AI to help humans -- both volunteers and staff -- in FromThePage.

Meeting Link: https://ecu.webex.com/ecu/j.php?MTID=ma67f0fae4834aa872bb38159719c7012 

Meeting number: 2863 354 7342

Meeting password: JSixBswm342

October 8th, 12-1pm, Show-and-Tell Panel

• Zachary Tumlin, Project Archivist for the Duke Family Papers, Duke University, speaking about Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans and his project to process her family papers 

• David Gwynn, Digitization Coordinator and Associate Professor, UNC-Greensboro, speaking about a LGTBQ oral history project

• Karina Burbank, Special Collections Research Center Student Exhibit Curator, North Carolina State University, speaking about NC State Fair collection

Meeting link: https://ecu.webex.com/ecu/j.php?MTID=m4ced025702ab75834a7c414f25b8f02d

Meeting number: 2865 211 5631

Meeting password: 7MxjYmYPr37

October 29th, 12-1 pm, Archives Influencing Art

Winston-Salem based artist Sauda Mitchel will speak about her work utilizing printmaking and QR code technology as a creative non-traditional access method linking viewers to archival repositories, curated exhibitions, and aggregated data.

Meeting link: https://ecu.webex.com/ecu/j.php?MTID=m75148041e64ccd4aa1ada69317fd972b 

Meeting number: 2633 436 2260

Password: GupstPgd369