[Ohiodig] FW: Webinar 12/4- AI & Archival Description with Anthony Cheney Guzmán

[Carleton, Janet (she/her)]

May be of interest. Free!
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From: Corey Cherrington via Society of American Archivists <Mail at ConnectedCommunity.org>
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2026 5:39 PM
To: Carleton, Janet (she/her) <carleton at ohio.edu>
Subject: [SAA announcements]: Upcoming Event (Dec. 4): AI and Archival Description with Anthony Cheney Guzmán

Hi everyone, The Description Section is excited to welcome Anthony Cheney Guzmán for a live session building on "The Double Erasure Problem,"...
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Hi everyone,
The SAA Description Section is excited to welcome Anthony Cheney Guzmán for a live session building on "The Double Erasure Problem," his post from our Descriptive Notes series on artificial intelligence and archival description. We hope you'll join us!
What: AI and Archival Description: A Conversation with Anthony Cheney Guzmán on the Double Erasure Problem

When: Friday, December 4, 2:30 p.m. ET / 1:30p.m. CT / 11:30 a.m. PT

Where: Online

Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/k2yITVYGToiEXuHJOnUmyA#/...<https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/k2yITVYGToiEXuHJOnUmyA#/registration>

Pre-Reading: "The Double Erasure Problem" on Descriptive Notes: saadescription.wordpress.com/2026/08/04/...<https://saadescription.wordpress.com/2026/08/04/the-double-erasure-problem/>


Details: In his Descriptive Notes post, Anthony argues that materials from marginalized communities are erased twice. First, they sit unprocessed, undescribed, or undigitized in archives. Then AI systems, which learn mostly from what's online, inherit those gaps and repeat them at scale. As he puts it, "What remains undigitized cannot be scraped. What cannot be scraped cannot be learned." Drawing on thirteen years of work making his grandmother's archive visible, he argues that archival description, and the judgment of archivists, matter more than ever. Join us as he expands on these ideas and takes your questions!

About the speaker:
Anthony Cheney Guzmán is the founder and executive director of the Olga Iglesias Project, a Puerto Rico nonprofit preserving the island's classical music heritage through archival work, arts education, and commissioned new works, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades. He writes and speaks as one of the many community archivists processing the records of their own people, and about what that vantage point sees that the authority files do not. As a solo archivist, he has spent thirteen years stewarding the archive of his grandmother, the soprano Olga Iglesias. He is also the founder of Acervo, a public benefit corporation building AI-assisted archival description tooling, and a fellow of Virginia Tech's Institute for Leadership in Technology and a member of the Society of American Archivists.

See you there!

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Corey Cherrington
Assistant Archivist
Gates Archive
Seattle, WA
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