Machine Learning and GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) Collections

[Paul Ferguson]

Machine learning has many potential applications for working with GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) collections, though it is not always clear how to get started. This post outlines some of the possible ways in which open source machine learning tools from the Hugging Face ecosystem can be used to explore web archive collections made available via the Internet Archive’s ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub). 

A technical article that might be of interest to people interested in building/searching/cataloguing large sets of images:

https://blog.archive.org/2023/05/10/gett...llections/