examples of RAG in LAMs

[Tom Cramer]

Dear Ai4lam community members, 

I’m looking for examples of RAG implementations in LAMs.  If you’re aware of a live system and any description of it (article, blog post, conference presentation, etc.), could you please let me know? I will populate and share a doc with any examples I find.

Thanks so much, 

Tom

[Keven Jeffery]

Hi Tom,

I have a small RAG application at https://library2.sdsu.edu/research-help/

It's a librarian subject expert finder. It first looks in a local database for simple keywords, like "Health" and uses a prompt to find the best match.

If It doesn't find a librarian in our local database (I test with "Myocardial Infarction") a prompt looks in a RAG knowledge base of our 30 librarians and makes a semantic connection.

Here's the workflow: https://library2.sdsu.edu/research-help/about.php

This is using a locally hosted llama 3.1:70b model.

Keven

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[Glen Berman]

Hi Tom,

I’m not sure if this quite what you’re looking for, but over at the AIINFRA project (https://aiinfra.anu.edu.au/) James Smithies has led the building of a couple of prototype RAG chatbots for use with historical corpora — one is Cambridge University Library’s Darwin correspondence dataset, and the other uses Hansard records from Parliamentary libraries in Australia, the UK, and New Zealand.

All the best,

Glen 

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Date: Wednesday, 6 May 2026 at 4:54 AM
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