AI-BRIDGES (AI-Driven Bridging of Resources and Integration of Data Governance in Educational & Cultural Heritage Systems)

Description

AI-BRIDGES is a research-driven, collaborative project exploring how institutional data, open knowledge infrastructures, and Generative AI can be better connected in sustainable, responsible, and globally inclusive ways. Hosted at the Digital Humanities Research Hub, School of Advanced Study, University of London, the project is funded by the European Commission through a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (September 2025–August 2027). AI-BRIDGES addresses a long-standing challenge: institutional data, from cultural heritage to research and public records, is rich and carefully curated, yet remains difficult to share, connect, and reuse at scale. As Generative AI reshapes how knowledge is produced and consumed, the project brings institutions, Open Knowledge communities, technologists, researchers, and funders together to explore how this gap can be responsibly bridged. The project operates across three interconnected strands: designing and testing low-code and no-code workflows to help institutions contribute data to platforms such as Wikidata and Wikibase; exploring how structured, open, community-governed data can be meaningfully integrated into AI-driven interfaces, including experimentation with open-source language models; and developing participatory approaches, including gamified micro-contributions, to involve students and the public in data curation without requiring technical expertise. AI-BRIDGES is designed as a time-bound research project with long-term ambitions; its outputs are developed to serve institutions, communities, and the commons beyond the lifetime of the grant.

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Founding year

2025

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University of London
London

Additional Partnerships

- Wikimedia Germany; - Wikimedia UK; - Pleias; - Wikimedia Brazil; - Wikimedia Switzerland - Wikimedia Sverige; - The Welsh Government; - AI Commons; - Public AI; - Open Knowledge Foundation; - Creative Commons; - AI4LAM; - GLAM Labs; - The National Library of Wales; - SOAS Library (University of London); - LSE Library (London School of Economics); - Trier Center for Digital Humanities; - KlimatKollen.