During the session AI and Multilateralism Archive: Exploring the Multilateralism Archive: Solutions for Researchers, Practitioners and Citizens, Florian Cafiero and Nuria Arques introduced the MoM digital platform, developed in collaboration with partners at the École nationale des chartes – PSL (Paris), the Centre for Digital Humanities (HELDIG) at the University of Helsinki, and its Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo). The platform will provide open-access exploration of already digitised minutes from international organisations’ governing bodies. A pilot version includes the minutes of the League of Nations Assembly (1920–1946) and the UN General Assembly (1945–today), with additional materials sourced from institutions such as CERN and the InterParliamentary Union (IPU).

The presentation highlighted how OCR-processed PDF archives enable text extraction and advanced semantic capabilities. Users will be able to search minutes by people, meetings, topics, locations, dates, and more, while also accessing visualisations such as frequency analyses and prosopographic networks. To support these features, the CDHM is developing in parallel specialised tools including DiploBERT, a language model trained on diplomatic content capable of distinguishing finegrained terminology that general models often conflate. Work is also underway on an agentic Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system and a Quality Assurance (QA) database tailored to historical sources, designed to account for evolving meanings, institutional vocabularies, and place names across time. These components remain under active development.

The CDHM and its partners will continue refining the MoM platform throughout 2026, with the pilot release scheduled for early next year and further demonstrations planned for upcoming multilateralism and digital humanities forums.