Tag: AI

Penn Libraries staff from Cultural Heritage Computing and Research Data & Digital Scholarship traveled to the University of Vienna in Austria for the 2026 SCOOP Network conference, joining an international community of technologists, librarians, and scholars exploring how AI can help make handwritten texts and the cultures they represent more accessible.

On October 10–11, 2024, the South Asia Studies Digital Humanities Workshop (SASDHW) convened scholars, librarians, and technologists for two days of collaborative learning on multilingual and computational text analysis of South Asian sources.

Jaj Karajgikar, Applied Data Science Librarian and Eug Xu, RDDS Data Science & Society Research Assistant present their work on AI Literacy Interest Group & Data Science Instruction over the last year. Learn more about how they use loom weaving techniques for teaching computation and curate special collections showcases on the history of technology and digital humanities.

On September 7th 2023, a group of around 20 students, staff, and faculty gathered at the Kelly Writers House (KWH) for a Prompt Battle-Off. Conceived by Jaj Karajgikar, Applied Data Science Librarian from Research Data and Digital Scholarship and Zach Carduner, the Digital Projects Manager at KWH, the evening promised to talk about if and how to use Gen AI tools in creative writing with hands-on exercises.

Jaj Karajgikar, Applied Data Science Librarian and Rachel Liu, Text and Data Research Asistant presented the multiple faculty-led Data Visualization Projects, Text and Data Mining Workflows, Libguides, Literacy & Research material for consultations that they have built together over the course of almost 2 years of successful, camaraderie-filled collaboration as a mentor-mentee for Penn Libraries Presents series.