๐ฆพ๐๏ธ How to digitise a physical archive to work strategically with AI?
This text summarises the last #AILearningLabs session: lessons by initiatives worldwide that digitised documents, photos, audio, etc., following different paths to preservation.
๐ How can open principles become open practice? https://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/open-knowledge-foundation-part-2/
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๐ฆพ๐๏ธ How to digitise a physical archive to work strategically with AI?
While we are working on the full documentation of last week's roundtable discussion, here is the link to the recording for those who have been asking for it.
๐ก Tips for sourcing ๐๐ก๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ฃ๐๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ Global South data for your responsible climate chatbot
Here's one more living resource from the #AILearningLabs
๐ค What would you add?
๐ฌ Join the conversation โ https://discuss.okfn.org/c/ai-learning-labs/160
๐ Roundtable recap โ https://blog.okfn.org/2026/05/20/recap-what-we-learned-about-climate-and-ai-from-our-first-roundtable/
๐ฅ Alejandro Flores: 'The gap between the Global North and South shapes what is preserved.'
Next Monday, we will begin exploring ways to save documentation centres in the era of AI. Organised by OKFN & AVANCSO.
๐๐พ Register: https://blog.okfn.org/ai-learning-labs-archives-registration-form/
๐๏ธ โจ Many documentation centres are barely surviving these days. Digitisation ๐๐ค๐ช๐ก๐ be an answer.
But where to start? How to take advantage of the inevitable AI?
That's the #AILearningLabs discussion next week with AVANCSO.
Join us! ๐๐พ https://blog.okfn.org/ai-learning-labs-archives-registration-form/
โจ Join us for the 2nd #AILearningLabs. This time, weโll be answering the following research question together: ๐๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐๐๐๐๐ฉ๐๐จ๐ ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐จ๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐ง๐๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ฌ๐ค๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ง๐๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ก๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ผ๐?
๐๐พ Info & Registration: https://blog.okfn.org/ai-learning-labs-archives-registration-form/
๐๏ธ Our May Newsletter is out โ including:
โข #AILearningLabs first results
โข Reflections on neurotech
โข New partnership with the Government of Brazil
โข Open Technology Research Symposium
โข Many talks in key events
and more.
๐๐พ Enjoy the reading: https://blog.okfn.org/2026/05/27/we-are-learning-ai-by-doing-okfn-newsletter-may-2026/
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