Applications of AI that Every Scholar Can Use
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- Share tools that use new AI capabilities that are helpful in scholarly work and research. Across both the arts and sciences, we all engage with scholarship as PDFs or Docx files.
- Begin a discussion about responsible AI and the use of AI tools that preserve privacy, account for sustainability and follow practices of open science (open code, open data, open weights).
I'm Andy Janco
Digital Scholarship Specialist Princeton University Library
Ph.D. in History
First used "AI" (computer vision) to find regions of mixed text and imagery in Soviet art periodicals
Types of AI Use in Scholarship
Mohamed Khalifa &
Literature search and systematization
Retrieval Augmented Generation
Prompting a model to use specific information in its response. Often, chunks of text are added as context and citations show the basis for certain parts of the response.
Extracting and Analyizing Information
Vision-Language Models (VLMs)
Visualization & Exploration
Responsible AI series
The Anatomy of a Chatbot
September 17, 3-4 pm
Cohort Sessions
October 15, 2025, 3-4 pm
November 12, 2025, 3-4 pm
December 10, 2025, 3-4 pm
Wed, Sep 17, 2025
4 PM – 5 PM EDT (GMT-4)
Thank you!
Applications of AI that Every Scholar Can Use
By Andrew Janco
