DPC Americas Allied Organization Session at Fantastic Futures 2026

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Join DPC Americas for an informal session focused on community building, networking, and information sharing on the 15th of September at 9am Eastern Time. Discussion topics will include a preview of selected key AI4LAM themes and their impact on digital preservation practice. This hybrid session is open to all registered Fantastic Futures 2026 attendees (DPC members and non-members alike). DPC members are also invited to attend this event virtually.

Fantastic Futures is an international conference series organized by AI4LAM as one of the most important global events at the intersection of AI and cultural heritage, shaping how memory institutions adapt to rapidly evolving technologies while maintaining public trust.

Registration

This session is open to all registered Fantastic Futures 2026 attendees. In-person Fantastic Futures 2026 attendees do not need to register, just turn up to the 6th floor of Madison building for 9am Eastern Time to join.

Virtual Fantastic Futures 2026 attendees and DPC members attending virtually can register below. Please note you will need an access code to register, Fantastic Futures attendees can find the access code on the FF schedule. DPC Members please log in to see the code below.

If you are having any trouble registering, please email eleanor.oleary@dpconline.org

Speakers

Jacob Nadal, President, Center for Research Libraries

Preservation, Generative Knowledge, and the Record 

As AI increases the volume of claims requiring validation, the need for independent stewards of authoritative sources becomes more important. Probabilistic systems can produce accurate information and relevant citations, but they cannot themselves preserve the underlying record or guarantee its authority and provenance. The entrance of a technology capable of retaining and regenerating knowledge into the LAM sector reframes the longstanding obligation of institutions to preserve the artifacts, digital and physical, that validate and generate knowledge.

Yvonne Ng, Trust in Archives Initiative / WITNESS

Introducing the Trust in Archives Initiative

As tools to fabricate audiovisual content become more advanced and accessible, moving image archives face mounting risks and ethical questions. There is a growing need to provide assurance of the authenticity of our collections, strengthen our capacity to discern and label AI-altered content, and to safeguard the integrity of the audiovisual record that journalists, filmmakers, educators, and communities rely on to tell their stories. The Trust in Archives Initiative (TAI) was convened as an interest group by the Archival Producers Alliance and the Association of Moving Image Archivists in 2025 to address these challenges presented by generative AI and synthetic media. It has since expanded to include a number of partners, and grown into a coalition dedicated to preserving the authenticity of media collections, encouraging transparency, and ensuring public trust in archives. TAI volunteers work together to develop community tools and resources that address the practical needs of archivists and archival producers.

Nathan Tallman, Academic Preservation Trust

Bags, Docs, and Forecasts: GenAI as a Force Multiplier for a Three-Person Team

The APTrust team is 3.2 people supporting preservation infrastructure for a consortium of academic and cultural heritage institutions. This talk covers three places GenAI has earned its keep in that context: a cloud-native tool built with Claude to migrate a member's S3 bucket into APTrust bags without ever pulling the data locally — or losing a checksum along the way; the consolidation of four scattered MkDocs instances into a single documentation site for enhances usability and accessibility; and a reusable AI skill that turns years of deposit history into forecast scenarios we can actually plan against. Small-team problems, modest tooling, and where the human still has to sit in the loop.

DPC Code of Conduct

The DPC Community is guided by the values set out in our Strategic Plan and aims to be respectful, welcoming, inclusive and transparent. We encourage diversity in all its forms and are committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation, whilst remaining technology and vendor neutral. We ask all those who are part of this community to be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our Code of Conduct.