About AI-BRIDGES
AI-BRIDGES (AI-Driven Bridging of Resources and Integration of Data Governance in Educational & Cultural Heritage Systems) is a research-driven, collaborative project exploring how institutional data, open knowledge infrastructures, and Generative AI (GenAI) can be better connected in ways that are sustainable, responsible, and globally inclusive.
The project is hosted at the Digital Humanities Research Hub, School of Advanced Study, University of London. It is funded by the European Commission through a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, spanning 2 years, from September 2025 to August 2027.
AI-BRIDGES is designed as a time-bound research project with long-term ambitions. Its research, collaborations and outputs are developed so they can continue to serve institutions, communities and the commons beyond the lifetime of the grant.
Project Lead
AI-BRIDGES is led by Dr. Shani Evenstein Sigalov, an educator, researcher, and long-standing Open Knowledge advocate, working at the intersection of education, technology, innovation and openness.
Shani’s research and teaching focus on how knowledge is produced, structured and accessed, and on how emerging technologies shape participation, authority and power in educational and cultural contexts. Her work spans Open Knowledge practices, technology-enhanced learning, and Digital Humanities, with a particular interest in how technical systems interact with institutional and pedagogical practices.
Alongside her academic work, Shani has more than a decade of experience collaborating with institutions and communities on open knowledge initiatives, especially in relation to Wikidata and linked Open Data as learning and knowledge infrastructures. This includes designing and supporting partnerships with researchers, volunteer communities, and cultural heritage, governmental, and academic institutions.
Shani has also been deeply involved in governance and strategic work within the global Open Knowledge ecosystem. Recently completing six years as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, she contributed to long-term strategic planning and worked across regions and cultures to support large, open, socio-technical systems.
As project lead, Shani brings these experiences together to convene and coordinate diverse forms of expertise across multiple stakeholders. This in practice means supporting collaboration across institutional and community boundaries, and creating conditions for work that can develop, adapt and continue beyond the lifetime of a single project.
Contact Us
AI-BRIDGES welcomes inquiries, ideas, and expressions of interest from institutions, community members, technologists, researchers and funders.
We look forward to hearing from those who share an interest in building more open, connected and responsible knowledge infrastructures.
To get in touch about collaboration, participation, events, research or related work, reach the project team at: [email protected].