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Last updated: 09.05.25
Theatre programmes prototype
How everyday-technology can surface forgotten cultural treasures
SLV LAB is prototyping digital pipelines with OCR and machine learning to transform hidden theatrical artifacts into searchable digital records, bringing Victoria's rich performance history into the light.
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Glossary
Catalogue
An organised listing of all the items within a library's collections. Their purpose is to help library users search for and find relevant material. Catalogues used to be purely analogue but are now increasingly available and searchable online.
Code Club
Code Club is a grassroots initiative within SLV that provides space for staff to learn and engage with technology. With an inclusive and accessible approach, the club is working to increase digital literacy, demystify technology, and foster cross-departmental connections.
Finding aid
A term used in archival science referring to a document that summarises an archive's structure and contents, for the purpose of helping users find specific information within a collection. This technology dates back thousands of years, and has been in use at least since the time of the ancient Sumerians.
Hugging Face
Hugging Face is an online community-based platform for sharing high quality machine learning models and datasets. The site specialises in natural language processing models, and largely operates on an open-source basis.
Model
A simulation or representation of a real-world system, which can be used to imitate or better understand real-world dynamics. A large language model (LLM), for example, is a representation of natural human language that can be used to understand or generate realistic human-to-human communication.
Named entity recognition
A task within natural language processing (NLP) to identify and classify important information from text. The information that is identified and classified is referred to as an entity. Examples of entity categories include people, location, dates and organisations.
Natural language processing
The application of computational techniques to the analysis and reproduction of natural language. Encompassing a broad range of different specific fields of research, but perhaps most significantly has contributed to modern "AI chat" applications and interfaces. Frequently shortened to NLP.
Open source
A computer program where the both the source code and the right to use, examine, or modify that code is freely available to all. Can also refer to the community of developers who support this practice, and the underlying software development approach that seeks to support decentralised and collaborative programming.
Optical character recognition
A technology that converts images of text into machine-readable and editable text. It is a foundational technology in the digitisation of archive and historic materials. it is frequently abbreviated to OCR.