On April 23, 2024, a symposium on revising the "Regulations on Scientific and Technological Archives Work", led by Prof. Yujue Wang, a faculty member of the Department of Archives and Government Information at Wuhan University and a researcher at the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Development and Service of Archives, together with his research group, was held at Wuhan University. Yingfang Cai, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Economic, Scientific and Technological Archives Guidance of the National Archives Administration of China; Xiujuan Wang, Second-Level Inspector of the General Office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development; Xuemei Zhao, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Wuhan University; and others attended the symposium. Participants held lively discussions on the "Regulations on Scientific and Technological Archives Work (Draft Revision Proposal)" and offered suggestions for its improvement.

After the meeting, the participating experts visited the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Development and Service of Archives at Wuhan University. Prof. Ping Wang, Deputy Director of the Laboratory, introduced the Laboratory's general profile, research directions and cases of research commercialization, and demonstrated the systems, platforms and products developed by the Laboratory, including the Smart Archives Integrated Management Platform, the Integrated Surveying and Mapping Archives Information Platform, the Smart Meteorological Archives Integrated Management Platform and ArcGPT Wendian, as well as devices such as the all-in-one machine for intelligent archival confidentiality screening and open-access review and the all-in-one archival large language model machine.

The experts highly commended the Laboratory's model of integrating industry, academia and research, as well as its research achievements in applying artificial intelligence technology to the development and utilization of archives. They also encouraged the Laboratory to further strengthen cooperation with enterprises in promotion, so as to closely integrate technological research and development with market application.

Text | Xinxin Li, Xiaziyu Zhang

Photography | Qibiao Hu, Xiaziyu Zhang

Layout | Na Li

Review | Yujue Wang, Muyan Li