AU & ANZ Chapter

Join the The AI4LAM AU & ANZ chapter

22 November 2023 • Ingrid Mason

Community Events

Register for the AI4LAM webinar: 12 June 2024 9am AEST, 11am NZST / 11 June 2024 7pm EDT (1 hour) [world clock]

Title: The Audiovisual Metadata Platform and AI/ML Tools for Metadata Creation   

Speakers: Jon Dunn (Assistant Dean for Library Technologies) & Emily Lynema (Head, Digital Media Software Development), Indiana University Bloomington Libraries


Jon Dunn and Emily Lynema manage the digital repository and access systems for audio and moving image collections at Indiana University Bloomington Libraries and in this webinar they will discuss the Mellon-funded Audiovisual Metadata Platform (AMP) project.  The AMP project is exploring the integration of artificial intelligence/machine learning-based tools into workflows for the creation of metadata for audio and moving image collections.  The tools being assessed for processing metadata include: speech-to-text (e.g., Kaldi, Whisper, AWS Transcribe), named entity recognition (e.g., SpaCY, AWS Comprehend), optical character recognition (e.g., Tesseract, MS Azure Video Indexer), segmentation (e.g., PySceneDetect, MS Azure Video Indexer, INA Speech Segementer, Applause Detection) and other metadata generating mechanisms.  In this AI4LAM AUANZ chapter webinar Jon and Emily will speak about their AMP project and questions from the audience of the speakers will be facilitated by Basil Dewhurst from the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, for the AI4LAM regional chapter (Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand).

This webinar is the third in a series coordinated by the AI4LAM regional chapter, leading up the Fantastic Futures Canberra 2024 conference being hosted by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia in the week 14-18 October 2024.  If you would like to keep up with the event and attend please sign up to the FF24 newsletter for more information.

Who We Are

The AI4LAM AU & ANZ 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 Aotearoa  New Zealand who are interested in how AI in all its various guises shapes our practice and our users’ expectations.


People who manage digital and digitised collections have joined the network, and they are interested in how AI technologies can add to, or improve efficiency in their own roles, and they might also be people who use heritage collections in new and unanticipated ways. The network members are interested in exploring how they make collections ready and suitable for new uses.


Initiated in mid 2020, the network has attracted more than 100 participants, with strongest responses from the university, library and archives communities.  The network is a participatory community, supporting peer learning and collaborative approaches to common issues. The volunteer coordinating group brings together data, collections and engagement specialists, all of whom profess higher levels of interest than experience in the issues at hand. 

Fantastic Futures Canberra 2024 

In 2024 the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia will be hosting the Fantastic Futures Canberra 2024 conference, 16-18 October 2024 in Canberra: stay up to date. 

Join us

New membership and all inquiries are always welcome, the best way to connect with this network is to join the international mailing list at ai4lam.org, join the discussion online on the #aunz_chapter channel in the AI4LAM Slack workspace.


The recordings of past webinars are available on the AI4LAM YouTube channel.  You don’t need to be an expert to join, it is a great opportunity to learn and grow as a collective interest group.  Reach out to any of the coordinators if you have questions or an idea you would like to explore.  

Volunteer Coordinators


A big thank you to all involved so far.