DLM Forum 2025 webinars
DLM Forum's upcoming and past webinars for 2025 (click to scroll)
February 27th - "DLM Forum sponsor webinar"
Webinars are open to DLM Forum community members.
"Experimenting with AI: Containerized Simple and Effective ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Solution"
Presented by Anssi Jääskeläinen, Xamk Digitalia Research Center (Finland)
Date: January 30, 2025. Time: 09:00–10:00 CET.
Short introduction: Are you facing challenges with converting speech to text? Do you have numerous old movies in your archives without transcripts? Join us for an exciting webinar where Ph.D, research manager, Anssi Jääskeläinen from Xamk Digitalia Research Center will demonstrate how to get started with openly available AI models and build a simple Gradio UI on top of the existing ASR AI solution.
- The Difference Between Virtual Machines and Containers: Understand what they are and when to use each.
- How to Utilize Models from Hugging Face: Discover how to leverage existing AI models from Hugging Face with minimal technical skills.
- Using the Whisper-Large-V3-Turbo Model: Gain insights on how to use and retrain this model.
- Combining AI Models with Gradio UI: Learn how to pair Gradio UI with the Whisper-large-v3-turbo model from Hugging Face.
The speaker strongly encourages you to experiment with the provided dockerized solution before the webinar. This will make it much easier for you to follow along during the session. Registered participants will receive a link to the dockerized solution a few days before the event.
Registration for the webinar is OPEN.
"AI and Increasing Collaboration, Transparency, and Access at the US National Archives and Records Administration"
Presented by Jill Reilly and Leslie Johnston, National Archives and Records Administration, US
Date: February 12, 2025. Time: 15:00–16:00 CET
Short introduction: NARA's Acting Chief Innovation Officer Jill Reilly and Director of Digital Preservation Leslie Johnston will discuss the US federal framework for responsible use of artificial intelligence and how they are applying it through their strategies at NARA. They will share insights from NARA's AI testing and evaluation projects, a groundbreaking initiative that uses AI to assist in archival discovery and access, including enhanced metadata and AI-driven semantic search. They will also discuss how NARA is using AI to pivot its community engagement strategies, particularly through partner collaborations. NARA is building on the success of user-contributed metadata, leveraging ground truth datasets, introducing AI enhancements transparently, and boosting crowdsourcing efforts for records like the 1950 Census and the Revolutionary War Pension Files.
About the speakers: Jill Reilly is the Digital Engagement Director in the Office of Innovation at the National Archives and Records Administration. Starting in January 2025 she will be serving as NARA's Acting Chief Innovation Officer. Throughout her 20-year US federal career, she has focused on digital engagement, access, and discovery. In addition to her 10 years at NARA, she has served at the US Department of Agriculture (National Agricultural Library), Library of Congress (Law Library), and US Department of Education. She holds a masters in library science with a concentration in archival administration and a masters of arts in US history from the University of Maryland in College Park. Leslie Johnston is the Director of Digital Preservation for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), responsible for developing and executing their digital preservation strategy. Ms. Johnston has over 30 years of experience in the cultural heritage, higher education, and federal communities; her expertise includes system design and implementation, setting and applying content and metadata standards, digitization, web archiving, and the preservation of born-digital and digitized collections. She has a B.A. and an M.A., both from UCLA.
Registration for the webinar is OPEN.
"DLM Forum sponsor webinar"
Presented by Kelly Stewart and Justin Simpson, Artefactual Systems Inc.
Date: February 27, 2025. Time: 16:00–17:00 CET.
More information will be available soon.
