storytracer

storytracer, 2 months ago to ai

500 billion words in the new Common Corpus collection! It is possible and necessary to train AI on public domain data, but to build the AI commons we have to share freely and generously. I feel honoured to be a volunteer in this movement! Why don‘t you join too?

https://huggingface.co/blog/Pclanglais/common-corpus

#ai #llm #dh #publicdomain #commoncorpus @dh

storytracer, 4 months ago to history

My new side project https://www.colorama.app lets you explore original color photos from the early 1900s on a world map. The first batch consists of over 60,000 Autochromes commissioned by Albert Kahn. More collections coming soon!

#history #photography #map #gis #museum #dh @histodons @dh

storytracer, 9 months ago to random

The major record labels are suing the @internetarchive for digitizing old 78rpm records as part of @great78: https://www.reuters.com/legal/music-labels-sue-internet-archive-over-digitized-record-collection-2023-08-12/. One of the plaintiffs is Universal Music Group, which lost 100K master tapes of 800+ artists in a 2008 fire: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/magazine/universal-music-fire-bands-list-umg.html?unlocked_article_code=2K5WobO_zwlliEwFxFi_5dg8WtgZSICKSrni2z-M4_PfyTt1jq5_pVNfYUTAzu3Px9w8LLRSJeOs0PMHHQA4RDWYMWHPl6lPx59uT7NPYjJXCNIRcsVvB2n-Fz_gdz8StV3lFul5PkA2DYZoGvykLMsieUKVNU7agfslTh-VVL7YgAhOdY7-HMgKDMKGLH0BB55-6mgZ8z3z8hmO54m0NgO-0fSySv2ZNX-uNTt_vieSUH69dI2fKj7bW9cuCP6fBTTdfahLnv57HVCEBEpi1iXQukkh33kVbdgn933qx0NOFxPHXcHtcRwp0CNjMTHEuiUt7uG64ZZvE18egy2Wqt8NPG_ceNs_Wp4DdYjERw&smid=url-share. They didn't even tell the artists their tapes were lost. Our musical heritage is clearly safe with them!

storytracer, 1 year ago to opensource

At the @internetarchive a light blinks on their servers every time you use their collections. What a great way to visualise the impact of free access to knowledge. Do not take libraries, museums or archives for granted, we must defend them at all costs! https://www.battleforlibraries.com

#libraries #museums #archives #glam #openglam #openaccess #opendata #opensource #culture #openscience #history #histodons #dh #digitalhumanities @dh @histodons

Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, explains what the blinking lights on their servers mean.