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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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 Alpanis18.03.26Kathy Reid joins us to talk about Mozilla Common Voice, language bias and fairer ways to manage cultural data.

Title:
Building better AI speech tech with global voices – Kathy Reid
Conversation Date:
18.03.26
Last updated:
05.08.26
Tags:
Experiment:
Speech systems optimisation->
Author:
- Sotirios Alpanis

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 Alpanis15.10.26Hear how a former librarian taught herself to code to reveal the bigger picture of Australia’s bushfire history.

Title:
Mapping colonial bushfires through historical newspapers – Fiannuala Morgan
Conversation Date:
15.10.26
Last updated:
05.08.26
Tags:
Author:
- Sotirios Alpanis

Resources

Title	Type	Author(s)	Tags
Fine-tuning speech models with Mozilla Data Collective Speech systems optimisation->	tutorial	Sotirios Alpanis->	AI Speech technologies Open access
How to query Wikidata Connecting collections with Wikimedia->	tutorial	Sotirios Alpanis->	Wikimedia Python
Introduction to k-means clustering ManIIIFestor Browser Extension->	tutorial	Sotirios Alpanis->	Machine learning Image analysis Python
Using IIIF to work with the Library's digitised collections ManIIIFestor Browser Extension->	tutorial	Sotirios Alpanis->	IIIF Digitisation Python
Getting started with Named Entity Recognition AI Ethics & Policy Research->	tutorial	Sotirios Alpanis->	NLP Python
Code Club code repository Code Club->	codebase	Sotirios Alpanis->Nick Paustian->Susannah Bourke->	Python
Public Domain image dataset ManIIIFestor Browser Extension->	dataset	Julia Rodwell->Monika Osang->Sotirios Alpanis->	Digitisation IIIF
ManIIIFestor code repository ManIIIFestor Browser Extension->	codebase	Nick Paustian->Sotirios Alpanis->	IIIF JavaScript
Theatre Programmes code repository Theatre programmes prototype->	codebase	Sotirios Alpanis->	NLP Python

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