JSTOR welcomes the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) to the Tier 3 charter program of JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, a values-led initiative focused on collaboratively developing sustainable, scalable tools for digital collections stewardship.

RMIT—the first Australian institution to join the charter program—plans to use JSTOR Seeklight, our AI-assisted processing tool, to test and validate AI-supported workflows. Their initial focus will be an architecture slide collection in which more than 2,000 images currently lack metadata, with an eye toward potentially expanding to multidisciplinary student capstone projects in the future.

As a Tier 3 charter participant, RMIT will help shape future JSTOR Seeklight functionality and shared practices.

“RMIT University Library is excited to partner with JSTOR to help shape AI-assisted digital stewardship by exploring how AI can help our University to achieve scalable outcomes,” said Arlene O’Sullivan, Associate Director Library Services (Collections), RMIT University Library. 

Bruce Heterick, Senior Vice President of Open Collections and Infrastructure at ITHAKA, added: “We know that the future of digital stewardship—especially in an AI era—has to be built with and for the community that will use it every day. RMIT brings a powerful combination of technical ambition and deep care for collections, and we’re honored to learn alongside them.”

About RMIT University

RMIT University is a public research university in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1887, RMIT has grown into a global university of technology, design, and enterprise—serving more than 90,000 students from over 190 countries and ranked among the top 125 universities worldwide.

About JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services

JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services is a community-driven initiative from JSTOR, offering a cloud-hosted platform that unites digital asset management, long-term preservation, and expanded discovery pathways—including sharing on JSTOR—with the AI-assisted collections processing tools of JSTOR Seeklight. Together, these capabilities help institutions advance responsible, scalable digital stewardship rooted in shared values and community expertise.