On Wednesday, April 8th, at 10am-11am PDT (1pm-2pm EDT) on Zoom, I gave a presentation called What if we used AI as an excuse to provide structured open data to our communities? The talk was just one in a larger series of talks made freely available by the British Columbia Library Association.
The video of that talk is now available.
(just a heads up – my connection drops at the 7:45 mark but the talk resumes in less than a minute)
[slides are available here and links from slides can be found on this page]
In July of 2025, I wrote a blog post with a very similar title — What if we used Ai as an excuse to provide structured open data in plain text to everyone?, but the talk is covers much more than that entry.
One thing I do mention in this talk are some of the sources that I rely upon to keep myself up to date on the ever-evolving monster of Ai, including
What I neglected to mention are two other important sources that I rely on to keep up to date with library-related Ai developments using my rss reader:
Stephen was kind enough to shout out this blog as one of the places where he does his Keeping Up with AI as Epistemic Infrastructure. He shares the work of several others in libraryland that I would also recommend!
The biblioblogosphere lives for another day!