(25 Mar 2025) The National Film & Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) is a little over 40 years old (in its current form) and is located in Canberra, Australia’s capital. However, the need for such an institution was identified 90 years ago and today’s NFSA is the continuation of collecting, conservation, and preservation activities since that time. The collection itself holds materials that date back to the founding moments of film and recorded sound, the beginning of broadcast television and commercial radio in Australia, through to video games, streaming media and social video being produced today.
As the industries we collect from and support have changed, so has Australia’s audiovisual archive. The media industry evolved to become more and more digital and now, in 2025, we collect more born-digital material than media we receive in any other format. Our collection is unknowably large. There are 100,000s of works made up of millions of components that could be used to tell an infinite number of stories.
Chief Digital Officer at the National Film and Sound Archive in Australia shares their journey leveraging AI to enhance the engagement of the archive here.
