I was delighted to sit down with Sotirios Alphanis from State Library Victoria last month to chat about diverse #speech data, #language, and the implications of unbridled #data scraping by #AI companies, and how the work we're doing at @mozilladatacollective is providing an ethical alternative for fair data exchange.

Huge thanks to Dilan Gunawardana from SLVlabs for the significant production effort here.

https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au/articles/mozilla-voice-tech-kathy-reid

#GLAM #SLV #SLVlabs

I know we need the rain (and hopefully snowpack in the Sierra) but jeez this is a lot 😭☔️

#rain #weather #SLV

[#veille] Enquête en ligne sur l'évolution des outils numériques en ligne des Archives nationales. Votre expérience de la salle de lecture virtuelle
https://forms.microsoft.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=VLp5BK-VzEWwllag3tBm_5BzACeKkWVBrKBEqwCeozJUQkFLM1NOMlRGM1pWOTUwM05FMkoyWlYxWS4u

Aka "usager.ère.s de la #SLV, lâchez-vous !!!"

#uX #archives #archivesenligne #portailculturel #archivesnationales #inventaire #histoire #histodons #patrimoine #GLAMarchives #genealogie

'The acting State Library Victoria management are rushing dozens of changes to library operations that will degrade and diminish core library services. These will gut the reference library staff (from 21 down to 10) and replace them with “self service” options; and pour taxpayer money into expensive “digital innovation” projects and “experiences” that few people use.'

https://www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/hands-off-our-state-library

#SLV #Melbourne