Preliminary Programme

Thursday, November 13, 2025

Venue: National Library of Lithuania, Gedimino ave. 51, LT-01109 Vilnius

09:30 – 10:30. Registration and morning coffee.

10:30–11:00. Opening and welcome speeches: The Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania, Lithuanian National Library, BAAC.

11:00–11:30. Keynote – Milda Kvizikeviciute, Lithuanian National Library.

11:30–12:30. Session 1

Marco Rendina, European Fashion heritage Association.
„AI4Culture. An AI platform for the Data Space for Cultural Heritage”.

Kerstin Herlt, Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum.
„DE-BIAS: Towards an Inclusive Approach to Cultural Collections“.

12:30–13:30.  Lunch

13:30–14:30. Session 2

Linas Ožeraitis, AI developer.
„Integrating AI Tools into Metadata Creation Workflows: Practical Challenges and Solutions“.

Joanna Kaliszewska, FINA. 
„Ensuring Authenticity and Integrity in the Digital Realm: Metadata Practices at FINA“..

14:30–15:00. Coffee break

15:00–16:00. Session 3

Zane Grosa, Artūrs Žogla,  National Library of Latvia.
„From Tape to Tag: Using AI to Unlock the Content of Audiocassettes and Videocassettes“. 

Rene Duursma, Groningen Archives.
„Learning how to Fly. AI & humans in the loop, the Learning Curve“.

19:00 BAAC evening reception



Friday, November 14, 2025

09:00–10:00. BAAC general meeting
10:00–10:30. Morning coffee.

10:30–12:00.  Session 4

Natalija Lace, Latvian State Archive of Audiovisual documents.
„A New Approach to Enhancing Access to Historical Records: The Experience of the Latvian State Archive of Audiovisual Documents in the Use of AI Tools“.

Erkki Nurmi, University of Arts Helsinky library.  
„User's point of view on some of the librarian's AI tools“.

Sofie Taes, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven.
„From Database to Data Space: Building Ethical AI Futures Through Human-Machine Collaboration in Cultural Heritage".

12:00–12:30. Coffee break



12:30–13:30.   Session 5

Mila Oiva, University of Turku.
„Quantifying visual cultural phenomena with multimodal LLM’s. Representations of ‘Leninism’ in newsreels produced in Moscow in 1918-1992 as a case study“.

Robert Aspenskog, Lund University.
„From Menus to Metadata: Unlocking Sweden’s Culinary Heritage with AI-Driven Document Analysis“.