A newsletter to learn about practical ways to decolonize your research and data work-lives with byte-sized drabbles about the daily life of a data professional.

Curated Content: Database/CMS/DAMS Embedding AI

From a data professional POV, an AI feature/product is not useful if the data isn’t there/clean/connected, which is often the case.

I work with a lot of cultural heritage institutions and many of them use products to manage their content by companies like Ex Libris (library software company). Many vendor systems right now are pushing new AI (artificial intelligence) system features or entirely new AI products. The problems related to cultural heritage often boil down to:

• the AI tech (the algorithm used, the data it was trained on) is often biased/racist/ableist

• the ethical implications of using generative AI can go against professional ethos

• environmental impacts of massive scale AI infrastructure negatively contribute to climate change

Curated Content: Data Fellowship

Curator in Residence at Images Festival

Images Festival (non-profit, artist-led festival in Toronto, ON, CA) has 3 open curator-in-residence positions offering an honorarium of $4,000 CAD. The resident will curate a minimum of two film screenings from submissions to their festival open call and support the film festival production.

Pay: $4,000 CAD honorarium

Due Date: August 22, 2025

Curated Content: Data Research

Part of data work is staying current with what’s happening globally in our sectors and with data tools/techniques/research.