AI4LAM is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Dr. Ines Vodopivec has joined the community to help guide its strategic development. Her appointment as Secretary General comes as AI4LAM prepares to strengthen its organizational framework and expand its role as a collaborative platform for advancing AI in the cultural heritage sector. 

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In the middle of the Australian Spring, in October 2024, the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) will be running workshops, tours, keynotes, talks and networking events for the AI4LAM community.

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This year, we are hoping to keep informed of conferences relevant to AI4LAM that members may be interested in attending. That’s where you come in!

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The AI4LAM Reading Group is unofficial, self-organized, ad hoc, and welcomes everyone. Join us on the AI4LAM Slack channel #reading-group. A list of our readings is here. Typically we meet at 9:30am PT/12:30pm ET on occasional Fridays. Keep reading for more information on our 2023 year of reading.

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We are so pleased to announce the dates and location of our Fantastic Futures 2023 Conference. Come join us at the Internet Archives Canada Headquarters in Vancouver, Canada from the 15th-17th November 2023. 

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In an effort to better understand the current state of machine learning (ML) in libraries, archives, and museums, the AI4LAM Metadata Working Group crafted a survey to gather data on how it is being employed in these settings. Read more.

In an effort to better understand the current state of machine learning (ML) in libraries, archives, and museums, the AI4LAM Metadata Working Group crafted a survey to gather data on how it is being employed in these settings. Read more.

We plan to create a French-speaking chapter within the ai4lam community . (there is an English summary on the post)

Au sein de la communauté AI4LAM, nous envisageons de créer un chapitre francophone pour favoriser le dialogue transversal, l’information et partage de compétences au sein de la communauté francophone des GLAM tout en nous intéressant aux enjeux spécifiques à cet écosystème (approches culturelles, corpus d’entraînement des IA…).  Pour en savoir plus.

The AI4LAM Teaching and Learning Working Group recently shared the draft of their review of AI teaching resources focused on GLAMs. Read more.

The AI Registry pages are collaborative pages where everybody can contribute to enrich it with projects or datasets to make these pages an even more useful and efficient tool. The purpose of these pages is to help members finding people with whom they can share the same goals, tackle the same difficulties or reuse the same tools or data. Read more.

The AI4LAM Working Group on Teaching & Learning set out to explore pedagogical approaches and delivery mechanisms and to review available resources for teaching and learning AI. Over the past year they conducted a survey of existing training opportunities and generated a summary. Read more.

20 September 2021 • Ingrid Monson, Katherine Jarvie, and Alexis Tindall

The AI4LAM AU & NZ chapter is a network of technologists, tech enthusiasts and the tech curious from across the local libraries, archives, museums and related communities in Australia and New Zealand who are interested in how AI in all its various guises shapes our practice and our users’ expectations. Learn more about what the chapter is up to and how you can join.

30 July 2021 • Claudia Engel, Stanford University

Fellows from across the United States participated in a one-week institute at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in July.  Learn more about the growing community of library professional engaged in AI.