DLM Forum 2026 webinars
DLM Forum's upcoming and past webinars for 2026 (click to scroll)
May 27, 15 CET - Compute-to-Data: A New Paradigm for AI in Archives
Webinars are open to DLM Forum community members.
EMILiA: Making Email Archives Accessible through Intelligent Entity Recognition and Automated Anonymization
Speaker: Nico Beyer, Freie Universität Berlin / Archives of the Max Planck Society
Date: 17 February Time: 13:00–14:00 CET
Short introduction: This webinar introduces EMILiA, a toolbox that helps archives make historically and legally relevant email collections accessible with the help of AI. The webinar focuses on context-sensitive entity recognition, automated metadata enrichment, and semi-automated anonymisation that enable legally compliant access to email archives. It will also demonstrate how AI can support appraisal, analysis, and the long-term preservation of complex email records in practice.
Registration for the webinar is CLOSED. Video presentation now available (members only).
eArchiving 3D models: an end-to-end preservation solution for Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH)
Speakers: Janet Anderson, Highbury R&D; Sven Schlarb, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT); Stephen Mackey, Penwern
Date: 3 March Time: 13:00–14:00 CET
Short introduction:This webinar presents an end-to-end eArchiving solution for the long-term preservation of and access to 3D models as part of our Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH). It starts by covering the necessary groundwork to be carried out, leaning heavily on a key comprehensive report by Prisma colleagues https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/report-long-term-preservation-3d-data-cultural-heritage. It then introduces recent work on standards, including the E-ARK Content Information Type Specifications (CITS) for 3D product models and cultural heritage objects, developed within the eArchiving Initiative in close collaboration with the DCH community. The webinar concludes with a practical demonstration showing how 3D models can be archived, managed, and rendered using the eArchiving Reference Implementation (earkweb) and other tools, illustrating a complete preservation workflow in practice.
Registration for the webinar is CLOSED. Video presentation now available (members only).
The use of AI and Machine Learning tools to enrich metadata and recreate life-courses at the Danish National Archives
Speakers: Jakob Leander Humlegaard & Tobias Kallehauge, Danish National Archives
Date: 9 April Time: 13:00–14:00 CET
Registration for the webinar is CLOSED.Video presentation now available (members only).
Compute-to-Data: A New Paradigm for AI in Archives
Speaker: Victoria Lemieux, University of British Columbia
Date: 27 May Time: 15:00 CET
Short introduction: Archives are under growing pressure to enable AI-driven discovery while safeguarding privacy, rights, and public trust. Current AI models, which rely on centralizing and extracting data, are fundamentally misaligned with archival principles and create unacceptable legal and ethical risks. This presentation introduces an alternative paradigm: bringing AI to the archive, where computation occurs under institutional control and only governed outputs are released. The talk presents the development of a shared archival infrastructure for ethical AI, called ClioX, outlining a phased approach from initial architecture and pilot implementations (2024–2025) to scaling capabilities and partnerships (2025–2026), and ultimately to decentralized, community-based governance. By shifting from disclosure to governed computation, this model enables responsible AI use while preserving sovereignty, accountability, and trust.
Speaker Bio: Victoria Lemieux is a Professor of Archival Science at the University of British Columbia’s School of Information. Additionally, she is the founder and co-lead of Blockchain@UBC, the university’s top-ranked multidisciplinary blockchain research cluster. Victoria’s research interests include risk to the privacy, security and availability of trustworthy records at the intersection of blockchain record keeping systems and artificial intelligence.
Registration for the webinar is OPEN.
Exploring Similarity Techniques to Support Consistent Digital Records Review
Speakers: Balint Csollei and Mark Bell, The National Archives, UK
Date: 3 June Time: 14:00 CET.
Short introduction: Before transferring records to The National Archives, depositors must carry out sensitivity reviews to decide whether material should be opened or closed for public access. These reviews rely heavily on individual judgement, which can lead to inconsistent decisions across reviewers, organisations, and over time. When similar records are treated differently, the cumulative effect can create data mosaicking risks, where sensitive information is unintentionally revealed by combining multiple sources.
Applying exemptions consistently depends on being able to identify records with the same or similar content. Established techniques can detect duplicates and near duplicates, while newer AI approaches, such as vector embeddings, make it possible to identify conceptual similarity even where wording differs.
This presentation covers similarity-based methods including checksums, hash comparisons, near duplicate detection, and semantic similarity, and demonstrates their use through practical examples and demos to support more consistent sensitivity review.
Mark Bell is a member of the Research Team at The National Archives. He started his career at The National Archives working on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded Traces through Time project, researching methods for probabilistically linking biographical records. His current research interests include: the application of machine learning in the archive, particularly in the UK Government Web Archive, the use of Handwritten Text Recognition for exploring digitised collections at scale, and the implications of machine learning including Explainable AI and representing uncertainty.
Balint Csollei is an information professional with a background in digital library management. He began his career working with community media archives and now leads the government engagement team at The National Archives UK, with the aim of raising information and records management standards across departments and exploring the use of AI in appraisal and sensitivity review.
Registration for the webinar is OPEN.
