24 October 2026 • SFCCA

Roots and Resilience: Living Clan Archives

Join clan leaders and heritage stewards at SFCCA to adopt practical machine intelligence for lineage records, ancestral scrolls, and oral histories.

Symposium Programme

Keynote and Interactive Showcase

10:00 AM Keynote

AI for Clan Communities

Speaker Jolin Tang demonstrates how cultural associations can adopt automated text parsing and cataloging systems without compromising ceremonial customs or lineage privacy.

All-Day Exhibition

Chan Si Wui Kun Singapore 新加坡四邑陈氏会馆

Hosted by Chan Si Wui Kun Singapore, this interactive booth presents live testing of dialect acoustic models, automated name-poetry matching, and ancestral pedigree chart indexing.

Practical Preservation

Three Operational Pillars

Targeted computational tools designed specifically to resolve historical ledger decay, generational language barriers, and fragmented ancestral records across diaspora branches.

Archival Recovery
Genealogy Indexing
Oral Memory

Ledger Digitisation

Pedigree Chart Parsing

Dialect Transcription

High-resolution optical scanners paired with computer vision models clean water damage and extract faded calligraphy from century-old association registers.

Specialised models cross-reference complex generational naming poems and ancestral branches, generating searchable lineage databases across overseas kin networks.

Automated acoustic transcription handles Cantonese, Hokkien, and Teochew elder interviews, instantly aligning spoken dialect memories with standard Chinese script.

Hands-On Access

Interactive Kiosk and Guides

Curated Video Archive

Watch instructional video walk-throughs and symposium recordings on YouTube documenting practical clan digitisation workflows and real-world deployment case studies.

Open Heritage Toolkits

Download free operational handbooks, open-source metadata templates, and implementation roadmaps directly from clansg.org and clansg.org/resources.

Live Archival Kiosk

Experience our live interactive terminal directly in browser at kiosk.clans.org. Scan physical QR tags at SFCCA displays to query ancestor migration records, inspect high-resolution scrolls, and test instant translation tools.

Attendee Feedback and Evaluation

Complete our short onsite symposium evaluation to receive a token for the prize wheel. Thank-you tokens can be redeemed for a recyclable tote bag, compact foldable umbrella, or commemorative clan heritage gift.