InterPARES Trust AI (2021-2026) is a multi-national interdisciplinary project aiming to design, develop, and leverage Artificial Intelligence to support the ongoing availability and accessibility of trustworthy public records by forming a sustainable, ongoing partnership producing original research, training students and other highly qualified personnel (HQP), and generating a virtuous circle between academia, archival institutions, government records professionals, and industry, a feedback loop reinforcing the knowledge and capabilities of each party.

The I Trust AI goals are to:

  1. Identify specific AI technologies that can address critical records and archives challenges;
  2. Determine the benefits and risks of using AI technologies on records and archives;
  3. Ensure that archival concepts and principles inform the development of responsible AI; and
  4. Validate outcomes from Objective 3 through case studies and demonstrations.

Recent Activity

AD01 Teachable AI: Educational Case Studies of Applications of AI to Archives and Records Management. Richard Arias Hernandez and Kaila Fewster. August 2024.

Arias-Hernandez, R.|Fewster, K. - Educational Case Studies of Applications of AI to Archives and Records Management. AD01-Teachable AI. August 2024. Artificial Intelligence in the UNESCO Audio Archives.

Arias-Hernandez, R.|Fewster, K. - Educational Case Studies of Applications of AI to Archives and Records Management. AD01-Teachable AI. August 2024. Developing AI search and retrieval tools to improve archival access using the AvocadoIT email collection.

Arias-Hernandez, R.|Fewster, K. - Educational Case Studies of Applications of AI to Archives and Records Management. AD01-Teachable AI. August 2024. Index.

Arias-Hernandez, R.|Fewster, K. - Educational Case Studies of Applications of AI to Archives and Records Management. AD01-Teachable AI. August 2024. State-industry collaboration in the State Archives of Hawai’i to design and implement an AI technology for indexing and describing video records.

Arias-Hernandez, R.|Fewster, K. - Educational Case Studies of Applications of AI to Archives and Records Management. AD01-Teachable AI. August 2024. Testing Computational Archival Science frameworks using AI tools in analyzing the Spelman College Archives photograph collection.

Arias-Hernandez, R.|Fewster, K. - Educational Case Studies of Applications of AI to Archives and Records Management. AD01-Teachable AI. August 2024. The Cybernetics Thought Collective’s experiments with AI tools to determine community provenance and create archival metadata.

Arias-Hernandez, R.|Fewster, K. - Educational Case Studies of Applications of AI to Archives and Records Management. AD01-Teachable AI. August 2024. The Endangered Archives Programme’s use of AI tools in evaluating Jacques Toussele’s Cameroonian photography archives.

Arias-Hernandez, R.|Fewster, K. - Educational Case Studies of Applications of AI to Archives and Records Management. AD01-Teachable AI. August 2024. The National Library of New Zealand’s experiments with ePADD using the Ian Wedde Email Archives.

Arias-Hernandez, R.|Fewster, K. - Educational Case Studies of Applications of AI to Archives and Records Management. AD01-Teachable AI. August 2024. Using AI in the retention and disposition of records at the New South Wales State Archives.