Hype and hope: machine learning, AI and special collections

Mia Ridge is the British Library’s Digital Curator for Western Heritage Collections where she provides advice and training on computational research, AI / machine learning and crowdsourcing. Mia enables innovative research based on the British Library’s digital collections, offering support, training and guidance on applying computational research methods to historical collections.

Mia is a Co-Investigator on the Living with Machines project, leading public engagement with digital scholarship and heritage collections through crowdsourcing. In 2021, she co-authored The Collective Wisdom Handbook: perspectives on crowdsourcing in cultural heritage.