Tag: Open Knowledge
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Publication highlight: A critique of “Vintage” large language models
“Vintage” large language models (LLMs) are LLMs trained on historical material, which, absent of context, replicate past prejudices and biases without critique for modern audiences. This replication could potentially reform past prejudices in untrained audiences. I had the opportunity, with my colleagues Jessica Jack and Jacob Polay of the University of Saskatchewan’s History department, to…
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Community Archives & Scholarship Commons: Notes from A Summer At UVic Libraries
By Lambert Heller, for the Kula Blog In 2025 I had the honor to be the first International Visiting Fellow at Kula: Library Futures Academy, a new initiative launched at the University of Victoria (UVic) Libraries. UVic sits on the beautiful south coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, with the Mearns Centre for Learning…
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Libraries: Safeguards of Democracy?
Libraries – Safeguards of Democracy …or are they? What happens when an institution built to safeguard democracy becomes part of the threat to it? This question drives Save Troy: Liberate The Library, a short essay I wrote for Bibliothek & Gesellschaft (Libraries & Society), a newly launched book series published by Brill De Gruyter. Its…