Category: Workshops
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Governments Hit “Delete” …A Grassroots Movement Hits “Save”.
Safeguarding Research, Data & Culture — a workshop at UVic Libraries,27 & 28 August 2026. Since early 2025, US agencies have removed thousands of web pages and datasets from public view: public health data and environmental records,cultural heritage materials, and scholarly publications.The current US administration is not the only government altering, censoring, or disappearing public…
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Visual Art Creation with AI Workshop: Autolume
Join us on Saturday, February 28, and Sunday, March 1, 2026, for a no-cost, two-day workshop using Autolume, a visual AI system created by SFU’s Metacreation Lab. Register here: https://libcal.uvic.ca/calendar/kula/autolume Generative AI tools have become increasingly visible in artistic practice, however most artists encounter AI through large-scale corporate platforms like Midjourney, Dall E 3, etc.…
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Accelerating History: AI and Optical Character Recognition Seminar
We are excited to co-present with the University of Alberta Digital Scholarship Centre on some of the work we’ve been doing with OCR and vision language models! Description: From the 1990s to the 2010s, the pace of development in text and handwritten tech was steady, but over the last 2-3 years, advancements have accelerated dramatically.…