RLUK’s Digital Shift Forum brings together colleagues from across the information, research, cultural and heritage communities, and third and commercial sectors, to discuss the future of the digital shift in collections, services, and audiences.
The series aims to promote cross-sector discussion and debate, to enable knowledge exchange, and inspire collaborative endeavour across sectors and communities, for the benefit of RLUK members and the wider research and information management communities.
The Digital Shift Forum is open to all, and you do not need to belong to an RLUK member institution to attend or participate.
The Open Source Movement and AI
Wednesday 4 December, 14:00 – 15:00 (GMT), 15:00 – 16:00 (CET), 16:00 – 17:00 (EET/SAST), 06:00 – 07:00 (PST), 09:00 – 10:00 (EST), 22:00 – 23:00 (AWST/CST)
Openness has played a key role in more than one digital shift, including open access to articles and open data infrastructure. As open source software continues to play a critical role in digital infrastructure, there is a growing movement around openness in AI, as exemplified by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) community-led co-design process to create the Open Source AI definition (OSAID). Sayeed Choudhury will provide an overview of the growing open source movement within universities and its implications for AI, particularly as it relates to infrastructure development.
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G. Sayeed Choudhury is the Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure and Director of the Open Source Programs Office (OSPO) at Carnegie Mellon Libraries and an affiliated faculty member of the Block Center for Technology and Society as well as the Executive Director of the Open Forum for AI.
He is the Director of a Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant for coordination of University OSPOs and a Co-Investigator for the Black Beyond Data Project. Choudhury is a member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Board and Human AI Collective Advisory Board – BGV & EAIGG. He is the Software Area Expert and member of the Steering Committee for the Research Data Alliance (RDA) – US.
Choudhury was a President Obama appointee to the National Museum and Library Services Board. He was a member of the National Academies Committee on Forecasting Costs for Preserving, Archiving, and Promoting Access to Biomedical Data and a member of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information. He was also a member of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. He has testified for the Research Subcommittee of the Congressional Committee on Science, Space and Technology.