Tag: open access
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New Creative Commons initiative for Cultural Heritage
Creative Commons just launched the new TAROCH initiative, which is closely aligned with our goals. Go read the founding declaration: https://creativecommons.org/2024/11/01/creative-commons-launches-taroch-coalition-for-open-access-to-cultural-heritage/
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Go read: “Secret 3D Scans in the French Supreme Court”
We’ve just read this post by the brilliant Cosmo Wenman of Concept Realizations. The cause is near and dear to us, doubly so because it involves Rodin’s The Thinker, which we have remixed for the BCC Innovation Festival. What we genuinely cannot understand is how people opposing the free distribution of our cultural heritage think…
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Link post: Digital Dark Age
Just sharing this MIT Technology Review article on digital archives, a cause that’s close to our hearts: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/19/1096284/data-archives-archeologists-tiktok-future-wayback-machine/?src=longreads It is always a good occasion to mention: donate to the Internet Archive, it is such an important resource, and it’s constantly under attack. Donating to them was the first thing I did when I got my…
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The Open Access saga goes on
Read the latest developments on the rules regarding Open Access and cultural heritage in the Italian legislative system: https://www.wikimedia.it/news/il-cammino-verso-lopen-access-in-italia/ Our own position is that eventually openness will win out, simply because the state is trying to charge for something that people are not willing to pay for, and the state has very little enforcement power…
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Corrections to the cultural heritage images licensing regime
Last year a mandatory fee regime was introduced for images of publicly-owned cultural heritage artifacts. This is morally wrong, but it is also impractical. A new regulation came out in March modifying the rules and introducing exemptions. Wikimedia Italia wrote about it on their Arkivia blog. Academic works and news are now exempted from the…
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AI Linkpost – 2024-02-06
Local AI Apple open-sourced this interesting local AI for instruction-based image editing. https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile https://github.com/apple/ml-ferret General AI news https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/17/24041518/generative-ai-copyright-violation-fair-training-label-certification: Nonprofit group Fairly Trained plans to certify AI models that ask permission to use copyrighted material. https://moritzgiessmann.de/blog/posts/using-ai-for-accessibility/ https://www.theuxda.com/blog/ux-case-study-ai-powered-spatial-banking-for-apple-vision-pro https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/01/what-do-threads-mastodon-and-hospital-records-have-in-common/ Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home: Hacker News Thread Mixtral 8x7B: A…
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Some AI news, and EU regulation
This ended up being a pretty weird post, juxtaposing technical releases and legal developments, we don’t know if we really managed to give it a coherent shape, but this is very much the complex space in which the future of digital humanities, and indeed the future of everything we do, is being shaped. There are…
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Unlocking value from digital heritage collections: international perspectives
Back in October we missed this rather interesting conference on digitalization and reuse, hosted by the University of Turin and shared on YouTube by Wikimedia Italia.
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The Italian Court of Audit recommends Open Access for cultural works
As reported by Wikimedia Italia, the Italian Court of Audit (Corte dei Conti) recently released a lengthy (220 pages!) report (source) on the activities of the Italian Ministry for Culture, touching on the PND (Piano Nazionale di Digitalizzazione) and on specific pricing guidelines released in April (D. M. 161, 11 aprile 2023). Ideologically we are…