CLAMS Project

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Computational Linguistics Applications for Multimedia Services

The CLAMS project is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Its goal is to develop an open platform with state-of-the-art AI tools for archivists and media researchers to improve access, search, and exploration of archival audiovisual material.


Primary Components

📝 MMIF Specification

An interchange format for multimodal annotations (text, audio, image/video)

https://clams.ai/mmif-spec/
🐍 Python SDKs

Software Development Kits for building CLAMS applications

https://clams.ai/clams-python/latest/
⚙️ Workflow Engine

Easy-to-adapt platform with toolshed of CLAMS-compatible apps

https://appliance.clams.ai

About the Project

CLAMS tools aim to generate metadata and knowledge from A/V material that may be hidden or invisible to archivists and database indexes. CLAMS is also designed to be used by computer scientists and developers of content analysis tools within an interoperable platform for custom workflows and pipelines.

The project is under active development. Contact us for any concerns or suggestions at admin@clams.ai.