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Technologist & Data Engineer

Sotirios Alpanis (he/him)

Sotirios was formerly Innovation Lead at State Library Victoria. He began working at the Library in late 2022. He has worked in mostly tech-focused roles within the GLAM sector since 2010, including spells at the British Library and Cogapp. He is passionate about sharing the things he finds fascinating with others, making the GLAM and digital sectors more equitable, and the thoughtful application of new or emerging technologies.

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Articles

A 19th century black and white photo showing a native American chieftain with a large ornate headdress (right) seated opposite a female western researcher (left) who is operating an early audio recording device.
Building better AI speech tech with global voices – Kathy ReidSotirios AlpanisKathy Reid18.03.26Kathy Reid joins us to talk about Mozilla Common Voice, language bias and fairer ways to manage cultural data.
A colonial era black and white illustration depicting animals of all kinds fleeing from a bushfire alongside a man on horseback
Mapping colonial bushfires through historical newspapers – Fiannuala MorganSotirios AlpanisFiannuala Morgan15.10.26Hear how a former librarian taught herself to code to reveal the bigger picture of Australia’s bushfire history.

Resources

Fine-tuning speech models with Mozilla Data CollectiveImproving speech technologies->
tutorial
Sotirios Alpanis->
  • AI
  • Speech technologies
  • Open access
How to query WikidataConnecting collections->
tutorial
Sotirios Alpanis->
  • Wikimedia
  • Python
Introduction to k-means clusteringManIIIFestor Browser Extension->
tutorial
Sotirios Alpanis->
  • Machine learning
  • Image analysis
  • Python
Using IIIF to work with the Library's digitised collectionsManIIIFestor Browser Extension->
tutorial
Sotirios Alpanis->
  • IIIF
  • Digitisation
  • Python
Getting started with Named Entity RecognitionAI Ethics & Policy Research->
tutorial
Sotirios Alpanis->
  • NLP
  • Python
Code Club code repositoryCode Club->
codebase
Sotirios Alpanis->Nick Paustian->Susannah Bourke->
  • Python
Public Domain image datasetManIIIFestor Browser Extension->
dataset
Julia Rodwell->Monika Osang->Sotirios Alpanis->
  • Digitisation
  • IIIF
ManIIIFestor code repositoryManIIIFestor Browser Extension->
codebase
Nick Paustian->Sotirios Alpanis->
  • IIIF
  • JavaScript
Theatre Programmes code repositoryTheatre programmes prototype->
codebase
Sotirios Alpanis->
  • NLP
  • Python

Collaborators