The AI4LAM Community Calls
These calls are open to all, and they last for one hour. The main parts are recorded and may be viewed after the call as well. The main purpose of these calls is to be an arena for sharing information, forming and reporting on working groups and charters, and developing a community of practice on AI within libraries, archives and museums.
General structure
The calls are based on Zoom, and they are normally recorded for later viewing. We often have a short section first, with relevant information and announcements. Then we have a section with 2-3 invited speakers giving short presentations (Lightning Talks) on various themes.
When & how
Link to the meeting, agenda and times may be found in the Agenda/Minutes Google Doc. Have a look below.
To add the full year of meetings to your calendar, please download the ics file here.
Agendas, Minutes and Recordings
All documentation on the calls is open to all. For each call there is a document with the agenda and minutes, and for most calls you may also view the recording from the call. You may find links to the documentation below, most recent calls first.
May: RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
April: AI & Crowdsourcing
March: AI Policies
Visual Geometry Group (VGG) at University of Oxford, G. Bergel
Computer Vision for Automated Tagging at Slovak University of Technology Bratislava, Z. Barbieriková
Models for Collaboration, Dr. M. Ridge & S. R. Germaine
February: Speech-to-Text, Expert Focus Conversation
No recording available for discussion based calls
January: What is AI? An Onboarding Session
Recording (please note: session starts at appx. 16:45, and there's a gap where the breakout rooms take place from 40:28-1:04:39)
December: 2023 a Year in Review
October: Celebrating Failure / Reframing Failure
No recording available for discussion based calls
September: Low Resource Languages
June: Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition at the National Library of Norway, J. de la Rosa
ASR / Speech-to-text with Whisper, P. Leonard
May 2023: Large Language Models
No recording available for discussion based calls
April 2023: Speech to text and low resource languages
Recordings:
Language Technology for the Sámi Population, K. Hiovain-Asikainen & J. De La Rosa
The National Radio Archive: the story so far, N. McCowlen
March 2023: Data visualisation
February 2023: Chat-GPT
No recording available for discussion based calls
January 2023: 2022 in Review
Recording:
AI4LAM 2022 in Review, E. Bermes
November 2022: Datasets & Model Sharing, Part 2
Recording:
HTR-United, A. Chagué
October 2022: Datasets & Model Sharing, Part 1
Recordings:
Ground truth and model sharing in Transkribus, A. Stauder
Smithsonian use of HuggingFace dataset cards, R. Dikow
In-house dataset hosting: The Norwegian Language Bank, M. Birkenes
September 2022: Working Groups & Chapter Updates
Recordings:
Australia/Aotearoa New Zealand Chapter Update, I. Mason
June 2022: Using AI in the Realm of Preservation of Physical Items
Recordings:
Dalgocol Project, A. Zreik
Prediction of Indoor Climate in Heritage Buildings, B. Hansen & S. Mollerup
Introduction to the BigScience Project, D. van Strien & F. De Toni
May 2022 :AI/Data strategy - how to make the organisational case?
Recording (coming after the call)
April 2022 : Content Generative Models and GLAM
Recordings:
OuPoCo, T. Poibeau
Litte_Bot, A. Pappa
The Night Watch, R. Erdmann
March 2022: More Fantastics Futures: Building trust and quality in AI projects
Recordings:
I Trust AI, L. Duranti, M. Abdul Mageed
Using Machine Learning to Extract WWII Incarceree Data, M. Friedman, M. Elings, C. Ford
Newspaper Navigator, B. Lee
February 2022: More Fantastics Futures: Content Discovery Enhancement
Recordings:
HIPPE 2022 : Named Entity Recognition and Linking on Historical Documents, M. Erhmann
When did De Gaulle and Eishenower meet?, P. Lisena
ADDI: Access and Discovery for Documentary Images, T. Arnold
Maken: A User-oriented Discovery Service to Make Sense at Scale, J. Schyberg
January 2022: Back to ai4lam 2021 year and Fantastics Futures
Recording:
AI4LAM Community Call - Jan 2022
November 2021: Innovation and Protection
September 2021: Archives
June 2021: Museums
April 2021 : Audiovisual
March 2021: Audiovisual
February 2021: Named Entity Recognition (NER, Text)
January 2021: AI4LAM 2020 Review and 2021 Forecasts
December 2020: Images, OCR/Text, Corpus/Text
GallicaSNOOP: Image search engine for heritage collections, J. P. Moreux
Artificial Intelligence: Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg, P. Scheider
The Colossal Norwegian Corpus, P. E. Kummervold
November 2020: OCR/Text/HCR
Transkribus at University of Innsbruck, G. Mühlberger
Google OCR, J. Walker
OCR for Bangla, T. Derrick
October 2020: Images
June 2020: Images
Agenda/Minutes
No Recording
May 2020: Text, Models, Newpapers
Agenda/Minutes
No Recording
April 2020: Launching the Community Calls :-)
Agenda/Minutes
No Recording