Jacob Ortiz
AI Builders Fellow
AI Builders Fellowship
October 28–30 · Vancouver
Compare what governments said across decades, check the scanned pages behind an AI answer and see where the public record is too thin to support one.
Wed 28 · 7:25–7:50 PM
AI Builders Fellowship: what they made
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The Archive Argues With Itself
A reading room for Canada's public-health record: compare decades, open source pages and see the gaps.
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About Jacob Ortiz
Jacob Ortiz built The Archive Argues With Itself during the AI Builders Fellowship, Internet Archive Canada's program with BC + AI. His open-source project explores Canada's public-health record through scanned government publications held by the Internet Archive. Ask a question and compare how official language changes across decades, with the source pages beside the answer. The tool makes gaps in dates, geography and coverage visible, and can decline questions the retrieved record cannot support. His festival demonstration follows Alberta health-insurance records across twenty-five years, opens the pages behind the claims and shows what happens when a question reaches beyond the archive's coverage.
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- Wednesday · October 287:25–7:50 PM
AI Builders Fellowship: what they made
Two builders from the AI Builders Fellowship, Internet Archive Canada's program with BC + AI, each get ten minutes to show what they built. Jacob Ortiz presents The Archive Argues With Itself: a way to compare Canada's public-health records across decades, open the scanned pages behind an AI answer and see where the archive cannot support one. Daniel Shavit presents What happened on your street? Vancouver through time, from the Archive's records: a film-led journey through Vancouver built from open data, council minutes, archive films and documents. Type an address, explore its history and follow each finding back to the Internet Archive. Then the man who built the Archive takes the stage.
On stage with Daniel Shavit.
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