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April 9, 2026 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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DPLA Provides a Grant to Virginia Tech for a Project on AI and Cultural Heritage Stewardship
Elise Monsour Puckett writes the following in “AI Project Puts Human Expertise at the Center of Digital Curation” for Virginia Tech:The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has awarded a grant to University Libraries for a project exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used responsibly to support cultural heritage stewardship while engaging students in experiential learning. The Metadata Remediation and AI-Enhanced Workflow Pilot was selected under DPLA’s AI innovation focus area and will develop practical, lightweight, scalable, and adaptable workflows that support metadata remediation and aggregation readiness. This work also prepares collections for the Digital Virginias service hub, which connects cultural heritage institutions across the region to DPLA’s national aggregation platform. For more information, read the article.
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