Education, Industry, Research

Agentic AI: Imagining the futures of digital commons and GLAMs

Study Day • On-site

12

Jun

2026

14:00

17:30

Paris
Event
Language
French

What could the agentic web mean for the digital commons and GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums)? The agentic web refers to an emerging environment in which AI agents autonomously navigate the Web and interact with online services to accomplish tasks, collect and synthesize information, and so on.

This workshop examines the implications of this transformation for the digital commons and heritage institutions. What infrastructures, interfaces, and regulatory frameworks will be needed to handle the anticipated surge in traffic generated by these agents? How can open knowledge projects and heritage institutions help shape the standards that will structure these new forms of interaction? What synergies can be developed between public institutions and the digital commons to address these shared challenges? Focusing on two flagship case studies—Wikipedia and the Bibliothèque nationale de France—this workshop brings together students and experts in computer science, law, digital humanities, and communication to envision potential future scenarios and identify pathways for collective action.

Format

  • 3–4 hour workshop. For researchers and advanced students (approx. 30 participants).

  • Expert briefings to contextualize the challenges of the Agentic Web for GLAM institutions (from technical, social, and legal perspectives).

  • Scenario-building workshop to map out potential futures based on concrete use cases: BnF and Wikipedia.

 

Speakers

  • Jean-Philippe Moreux, AI Project Manager, Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)

  • Nathalie Casemajor, Research Chair on Digital Commons, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS, Montreal)

  • Rémy Gerbet, Executive Director, Wikimedia France

  • Gaël Lejeune, Vice President of Digital Affairs, Associate Professor (HDR) in Computer Science, Deputy Director of CERES

  • Motasem Alrahabi, Director of ObTIC / Digital Humanities Initiative: Uses for Research

  • Raphaël Cousin, Research Engineer at SCAI – Sorbonne University

  • Anne-Catherine Fritzinger, Director of Archives, Libraries, Museum Collections, Open Science and Knowledge Sharing

  • Marta Severo, Professor and Director of the DICEN Laboratory

  • Julien Schuh, Associate Professor, Université Paris Nanterre

  • Ghislain Delabie, Co-founder, Alien Intelligence