KCL lands grant to explore AI for screen archives
King’s College London (KCL) has been awarded a grant of £192,500 to investigate how AI technologies could be used in screen archives.
The award from the British Film Institute’s (BFI) National Lottery Innovation Challenge Fund will support a project looking at how the UK moving image archives could “creatively explore” emerging AI technologies (AI) in responding to their challenges and opportunities.
The Intelligent Systems for Screen Archives project will run for 30 months, to develop tools and skills to support the work of audiovisual collections.
This will include a technical prototype to enable AI experimentation with moving image collections, as well as a programme of workshops delivered with archive partner organisations across the UK to test the prototype with their collections.
The project’s five screen archive partners are the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of Wales, Northern Ireland Screen, the North West Film Archive and Yorkshire Film Archive.
Rishi Coupland, the BFI’s director of research and industry innovation, said the project “will provide new tools, skills and insights to establish an R&D framework that could benefit the wider sector in integrating AI technologies in the institutional fabric of moving image archives, while ensuring that we prioritise considerations such as copyright and ethical perspectives”.
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