Community Events

A webinar series is coordinated by the AI4LAM regional chapter coordinators and community members.  

• Webinar #1: Register: ACMI & SLQ Collaborating on AI, Wed 2nd April, 10:00am AEDT

  • In 2024 ACMI & the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) agreed to collaborate on testing out different AI technologies (machine learning).  This is a short presentation by Jeff Williams (Head of Technology, ACMI) and Margaret Warren (Director of Content Management, SLQ) on how, why and what happened (and the power of collaboration).  Key questions in collaboration as a feature of institutional partnerships are: the problems and opportunities, the benefits, the possible strategic responses and solutions. Join in and find out what a major challenge is for the GLAM sector and why ACMI & SLQ saw collaboration as the key to a mutually beneficial partnership.  In essence, bringing the know-how and the way to explore AI technologies (ACMI) together with the desire to explore AI technologies with collections (SLQ) and share the results.  The webinar will be hosted by Francesco Ramigni (Cloud Services and Software Development Manager) from ACMI with support from the chapter co-convenors: Ingrid Mason (NFSA) and Rowan Payne (NLNZ).

  • Wednesday 2nd April, 7:00 am AWST & SGT (Perth/Singapore), 9:30 am ACDT (Adelaide), 10:00 am AEDT (Melbourne/Sydney), 12:00 am BST (London), 1:00 am (Paris). Tuesday 1st April, 4:00 pm PDT (San Francisco), 7.00 pm EDT (Washington DC). World Clock - UTC (GMT) Tuesday 1 April 2025, 23:00.

• Webinar #2: Register: ACMI AI Ambassadors Program, Wed 30th April, 10:00am AEST 

  • Details coming.  Watch the talk Jeff Williams (ACMI) gave at the Fantastic Futures 2024 conference to get a head start.  The webinar will be hosted by Basil  Dewhurst (Senior ICT Project Manager) from NFSA with support from the chapter co-convenors: Ingrid Mason (NFSA) and Rowan Payne (NLNZ).

  • Wednesday 30th April, 8:00 am AWST & SGT (Perth/Singapore), 9:30 am ACST (Adelaide), 10:00 am AEST (Melbourne/Sydney), 1:00 am BST (London), 2:00 am CEST (Paris). Tuesday 29th April, 5:00 pm PDT (San Francisco), 8:00 pm EDT (Washington DC). World Clock - UTC (GMT) Wednesday 30th April 2025 00:00.  

• Webinar #3: TBC

• Webinar #4: TBC     

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. 

2024

Fantastic Futures Canberra 2024 

In 2024 the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia hosted the Fantastic Futures Canberra 2024 conference, 15-18 October 2024 in Canberra, Australia.  Catchup on the formal presentations.  

Chapter Webinars

• Webinar #1: Models for Collaboration, Dr Mia Ridge (British Library) & Sae Ra Germaine (CAVAL)

• Webinar #2: AI Planning and Experiments, Abigail Potter (Library of Congress) & Margaret Warren (State Library of Queensland)

• Webinar #3: The Audiovisual Metadata Platform and AI/ML Tools for Metadata Creation, Jon Dunn & Emily Lynema (University of Indiana Bloomington Libraries) 

• Webinar #4: AI at the National Library of New Zealand, Emerson Vandy, Yizhe Zhan, Svetlana Koroteeva & Rich Robertson (National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa)      

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

• Ingrid Mason, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (co-convenor)

• Rowan Payne, National Library of New Zealand (co-convenor)

• A/Prof Sydney Shep, Victoria University of Wellington

• Sae Ra Germaine, CAVAL

• Basil Dewhurst, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

• Francesco Ramigni, Australian Centre for the Moving Image 

• Catherine Belcher, State Library of Western Australia

• Amelia Paxman, National Archives of Australia

A big thank you to all involved so far.

• Daniel Lewis, State Library of Victoria

• Elizabeth Long, National Archives of Australia

• Alexis Tindall, University of Adelaide Library

• Katherine Jarvie, RMIT University Library

• Paula Bray, The Australian National Maritime Museum

• Alice Rezende, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art

• James Robertson, National Library of New Zealand

• Dr Jason Ensor, Western Sydney University Library

• Noriaki Sato, Monash University Library

• Liz Stokes, Australian Research Data Commons

• Adam Moriarty, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Image credit: Photo by Jaime Lopes on Unsplash 

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