Agenda

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December 6th 2026
16.00 – 18.00 Registration
18.00 – 20.00 Welcome dinner
December 7th 2026
07.30 – 10.00 Breakfast and registration
10.00 – 12.00 Workshop I.: Václav Šubrta, National Library of Czech republic – Claude code
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 13.10 Opening
13.10 – 13.35 Petr Žabička, Moravian Library, Filip Bím, Moravian Library and Jan Rychtář, Trinera – From Scan to Archival Package: Automating the Digitisation Workflow
13.35 – 14.00 Norman Meuschke, GippLab / University of Göttingen – AI in Museums: Connecting Cultural Heritage Through Intelligent Metadata Enrichment”
14.00 – 14.25 Martin Lhoták and Filip Kersch, Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences – Making Library Collections Research Ready – From Digitisation to Research Data

14.25 – 14.50 Václav Šubrta, National Library of Czech republic – TBD

14.50 – 15.20 Panel discussion with presenters and coffee break
15.20 – 15.50 Workshop II.: Jan Rychtář, Trinera – A Digital Library Built for the AI Era
15.50 – 16.10 Sanna Haukkala, The National Library of Finland – When the National Library Preserves the internet, what is being preserved, and why, for the future?
16.10 – 16.30 Adam Matysiak, National Library of Poland – Integrating the Alma AI-Metadata Assistant into the 24-hour Cataloging Workflow at the National Library of Poland
16.30 – 17.00 Tomáš Foltýnek, Masaryk University – AI Ethics and Ethical Use of AI in Institutional Practice
17.00 – 18.00 Panel discussion on legal aspects of AI, chaired by David Minor, UC San Diego Library
18.00 – 19.00 Dinner
19.00 – 21.00 Aquarium night
December 8th 2026
07.30 – 09.00 Breakfast
09.50 – 10.00 Opening
10.00 – 10.20 Megan Gooch, Bodleian Libraries / Oxford university – The possibilities and pitfalls of working with big tech: the Oxford experience
10.20 – 10.40 Anna Walek, OAPEN – TBD
10.40 – 11.10 Jan Brase, Göttingen State and University Library – The German National Research Data infrastructure (NFDI) and the role of SUB Göttingen
11.10 – 12.00 Radek Budzichowski, Clarivate – TBD
12.00 – 12.30 Panel discussion with presenters and coffee break
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.20 Anastasia Zhukova, GippLab / University of Göttingen – Navigating Real-World Challenges of Cross-Document Coreference Resolution using Contrastive and Transfer Learning
14.20 – 14.40 Alicia Wise, CLOCKSS – Who will protect the eBooks?
14.40 – 15.00 David Minor, UC San Diego Library – TBD
15.00 – 15.20 Neil Jefferies, Open Preservation Foundation / Oxford university – Crafting Effective Standards and Guidelines: The N-RICH DCP Project
15.20 – 15.40 Bela Gipp and Frederic Kirstein, GippLab / Göttingen State and University Library – LibraryAI: Building a Virtual Research Assistant for the Göttingen State and University Library
15.40 – 16.10 Panel discussion with presenters and coffee break
16.10 – 17.00 Panel discussion on AI in libraries, chaired by David Minor, UC San Diego Library
17.00 – 17.10 Closing of the conference
19.00 – 22.00 Gala Dinner
December 9th 2026
7.30 – 10.00 Breakfast