Over the summer I wrote a short and relatively non-technical piece looking at what machine learning might have to offer to archives and special collections. This has just come out, and can be found here
https://blog-ica.org/2019/10/02/machine-learning-archives-and-special-collections-a-high-level-view/The International Council on Archives, which invited the piece, has also translated it into French, for those who prefer that language.
Recently, my friend Dan Cohen of Northeastern University has also looked at very similar topics in his wonderful newsletter Humane Ingenuity. See
Humane Ingenuity #3: AI in the Archives
Welcome back to Humane Ingenuity. It’s been gratifying to see this newsletter quickly pick up an audience, and to get some initial feedback from readers like...
I may do a longer version of this piece at some point in future, greatly expanding the discussion of facial recognition, which is quickly turning out to be an extremely interesting and complicated issue.
Clifford Lynch Director, CNI
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