Public KnowledgeSupport Rasin and future public-knowledge work.
Rasin is the active public-knowledge project in the studio1804 portfolio: a nonprofit in formation for the Haitian historical record. During formation, studio1804 helps scope the technical work, partnership path, and interim research collaborations. We are also interested in future public-good projects where language, archives, and evidence need durable infrastructure.
Best Fit- —Support for Rasin nonprofit formation, Kreyòl evaluation, citation verification, and claim provenance
- —Introductions to humanities, archival, civic, and public-knowledge program officers
- —New public-good projects that need technical formation before they have an institutional home
Start Here →Research CollaboratorsCollaborate on methods, evaluation, and infrastructure.
The strongest research collaborations are concrete: OCR accuracy on historical documents, cross-lingual retrieval quality, citation verification, entity resolution, source-perspective labels for archives, and security patterns for autonomous systems that invoke external tools.
Best Fit- —Linguistics, history, digital humanities, ML evaluation, and AI security collaborators
- —Workshop papers, technical reports, benchmark design, and reproducible evaluations
- —Review of citation, source authority, tool-boundary security, and interpretation workflows
Start Here →Archives / Cultural InstitutionsBring multilingual search to archival collections.
We work best with archives and cultural institutions that need source-cited discovery, multilingual access, and exportable outputs their staff can evaluate. The goal is a research partnership with reviewable methods, not a black-box vendor deployment.
Best Fit- —Pilot projects for newspapers, legal records, manuscripts, maps, and oral history transcripts
- —Search systems that cite exact documents, pages, and collections
- —Portable outputs: OCR text, metadata, embeddings, indexes, citations, and documentation
Start Here →Applied SystemsExplore selective commercial or institutional work.
studio1804 builds applied systems when the problem calls for a durable technical partner: multilingual retrieval, source-grounded AI workflows, and infrastructure for organizations whose needs exceed generic tooling.
Best Fit- —Evidence-grounded search, multilingual retrieval, or source-cited AI workflows
- —Infrastructure security for autonomous systems that use tools, services, or private data
- —Commercial or institutional pilots that align with the lab's research direction
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