Kula: Library Futures Academy
@kula@mstdn.ca
A transdisciplinary collider space & incubator at the University of Victoria Libraries. We explore the future of knowledge creation, preservation, and dissemination 🎓 Director: @jmhuculak 📚Home of the KULA OA Journal: https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula Account maintained by @jmhuculak and @Dieter_Boolean
mstdn.ca
Kula: Library Futures Academy
@kula@mstdn.ca
A transdisciplinary collider space & incubator at the University of Victoria Libraries. We explore the future of knowledge creation, preservation, and dissemination 🎓 Director: @jmhuculak 📚Home of the KULA OA Journal: https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula Account maintained by @jmhuculak and @Dieter_Boolean
mstdn.ca
@kula@mstdn.ca
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Feb 09, 2026
How much usable data is sitting in our archives, digitized but not truly accessible?
New vision-language OCR tools are changing what's possible. Our graduate fellow Chloë Farr tested these on 323 pages of archaeological ceramic data—tables that stumped traditional OCR completely.
Read Chloë's full analysis: 👇
https://kulaacademy.ca/datatables/
#DigitalArchives #GLAM #OpenSource #DataScience #LibraryFutures
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