The AI4LAM community are invited to a professional meetup (places in person and online) hosted at the National Museum of Australia in the Peninsula Room. The aim is to peer network and share work developing or experimenting with AI/ML and applying that to cultural heritage or humanities and arts digital collections and data.

Welcome and introductions (10 min) - Ingrid Mason (Head of Collection Platforms), National Museum of Australia, AI4LAM AU & ANZ chapter
Video introduction to AI4LAM (5 min) - Dr Ines Vodopivec (Secretary General) hosted at National Library of Norway, AI4LAM.
Francis Crimmins (Senior Software Engineer) & Terence Ingram (Director Applications Delivery), National Library of Australia, TBC (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
Kent Fitch (Consultant & Computer Programmer), ADFA, UNSW, Using LLM for OCR and Handwriting on WW2 Discharge Forms (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
Craig Quirke (IT Coordinator), CAVAL, How Prompt Engineering Could Turn Book Images into Metadata (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
Break (25 min)
Lucie Paterson (Head of Digital Products & Interaction) & Jeff Williams (Head of Technology), ACMI, Concoctions (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
Keir Winesmith (Chief Digital Officer) & Alex Chapman (Delivery Manager), National Film and Sound Archive, Embedding AI at the NFSA (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
TBC, National Museum of Australia (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
Facilitated discussion with audience (30 min)

The meetup is timed to occur in the same week with two great conferences. One in Canberra, Australia, hosted by the Australasian Association of Digital Humanities (Digital Humanities Australasia) and one in London, England, hosted by the British Library (Fantastic Futures).

Options to host attendees onsite and virtually is facilitated.

Ticketing is in place for "In person" or online attendance.

No recordings will be made.

Contact the host of AI4LAM Meetup - Canberra 2025

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