AI Discussions Working Group Presents – The Solutions Showcase Session 2 & 3
Arran Griffith
AI Discussions Working Group Presents – The Solutions Showcase Session 2 & 3
Anubis, F5 Bot Defense & Captcha Project
Dates:
- Wednesday, October 29, 2025 @ 10:00am Eastern
- Thursday, October 30, 2025 @ 10:00am Eastern
Registration:
- Wednesday: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/meeting/register/UgpcagwuRyq3ZttNsCMkVw
- Thursday: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/meeting/register/cyWtRLRhQL-EV7ow41okYA
Cost: FREE
Colleagues,
We are excited to announce the next two sessions in the AI Solutions Showcase Series. On Wednesday, October 29th and Thursday, October 30th we will host back-to-back sessions featuring Anubis, F5 Bot Defense and Captcha Project. The Solutions Showcase Series is a virtual event series bringing together individuals and institutions from across the GLAM sector to demo practical solutions they've implemented to mitigate the negative impacts of AI bot harvesting on their systems, including repositories, websites, catalogues, and more.
Details:
Anubis - Featuring a talk by Xe Laso
Date: Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
Time: 10:00 - 11:00am Eastern
Location: Zoom - https://lyrasis.zoom.us/meeting/register/UgpcagwuRyq3ZttNsCMkVw
F5 Bot Defense & Captcha Project
Date: Thursday, October 30th, 2025
Time: 10:00 - 11:00am Eastern
Location: Zoom - https://lyrasis.zoom.us/meeting/register/cyWtRLRhQL-EV7ow41okYA
*Please note - you must register for each session separately.
- Each session will feature a live demo and time for Q&A.
- Demos will span a diverse range of technical approaches, including open and non-open source solutions.
Wednesday’s session will feature a talk and demo by Xe Laso, creator and maintainer of Anubis. And Thursday’s session will feature demos by Stanford University Libraries and LeHigh University.
Anubis - Xe Laso, creator of Anubis, will showcase the javascript-powered software that is being used to help deter impacts of web-scraping from bots.
Stanford University Libraries - Presenter Julian Morley will share details on their implementation of F5 Bot Defense, which is a component of F5’s BigIP line of hardware load balancers.
LeHigh University - Presenter Joe Corall will showcase Captcha Protect, which is an open source Traefik middleware that adds anti-bot challenges to safeguard systems from abuse and spam.
To read more about the presenters, and find more details about the Solutions Series check out our wiki space: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/cmtygp/Solutions+Showcase
The Solutions Showcase Series is organized by the AI Discussions Group, a collaborative initiative that emerged from shared concerns about the impact of AI-driven web harvesting on academic institutions. While our initial focus was on academic repositories, we’ve since expanded our scope to include all corners of the GLAM sector.
The group is currently working through three focused sub-groups:
- Solutions – to discuss and share mitigation strategies
- Metrics – to better understand the direct user impacts as a means for education and advocacy
- White Paper – to articulate the challenges and advocate for sector-wide awareness
Read more about some of our initial discussions here: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/cmtygp/Aggressive+AI+Harvesting+of+Digital+Resources
Have a solution to share?
We’re actively looking for additional presenters! If your institution has addressed AI bot scraping in a creative or effective way, we’d love to feature your work. Please
reach out to Arran Griffith at arran.g...@lyrasis.org
to book a presentation slot.
Cheers,
Arran Griffith, on behalf of The AI Discussions Group
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Arran Griffith
Program Manager, Fedora Program
Lyrasis
