In January 2025, CENL’s “AI in Libraries” network group organised a webinar devoted to the application of AI techniques to several assisted cataloguing scenarios.
Five representatives of European national libraries presented their feedback during this webinar, in which 33 people participated.
NL of Finland (Mona Lehtinen): Annif, the automated subject indexing tool: introduction and future development
NL of Latvia (Matiss Bosteins): We aim to use AI for retrospective cataloguing (mostly in Russian). We have scanned title pages of books to create MARC draft records (*started building an AI model (KBR use case), have done a few tests with Meteor, and are now testing them with the ChatGPT Team.
BN du Luxembourg (Yves Maurer): We would like to make the electronic legal deposit available through the library catalogue. The amount of publications is currently too large for manual cataloguing. From the digital object (PDF), we aim to fill all basic fields (008/ 020 / 100, 110, 245, 264 / 300 / 500 / 700 / 710), as well as the national bibliography.
NL of Estonia (Greete Veesalu): Integrating automatic cataloguing into legal deposit acquisition workflow.
NL of the Netherlands (Steven Claeyssens): Developing a tool for cataloguing based on two or three scans of the title page and the colophon to extract relevant metadata.