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Council approves pilot with Cornell AI center to make city records searchable
Ithaca Common Council · May 7, 2026
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Summary
Council unanimously approved a partnership with Cornell’s Center for AI Innovation to OCR and index municipal records to improve public access; staff said the project is experimental and initially cost‑free to the city.
The Common Council unanimously approved a resolution to begin a collaboration with Cornell’s Center for AI Innovation (DICE) to ingest and OCR digitized city records to make them more searchable and accessible to the public and council members. Councilor…
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