The Oxford Digital Scholarship Society (OxDSS) Public Talk Series

The BodleianLLM Project - Training open language models on cultural heritage data for humanities research

Monday 16 November, 4-6PM
Jesus College, Oxford (arrivals via Jesus College lodge) 
Open to University of Oxford staff and students. Registration not required.

BodleianLLM is a research project running from September 2026 to August 2027 that trains an open language model on Oxford's digitised cultural heritage collections led by Professor Glenn Roe in partnership with the Bodleian's Centre for Digital Scholarship. The team sets out what it is building: a documented humanities training corpus, a benchmark suite for humanities tasks, and a model, code and data published openly, then turns to other AI work at the Bodleian.

Speakers: Miguel Arana-Catania (Senior Research Software Engineer, AI and Machine Learning, Digital Scholarship @ Oxford) · Megan Gooch (Head of the Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries) · Glenn Roe (Professor of Digital Scholarship and French Literature; OxDSS Senior Member)

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