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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Janet M. Carleton | Interim, Libraries Communication & Marketing | Digital Initiatives Coordinator | Digital Initiatives | Mahn Center for Archives and Special
Collections, Preservation & Digital Initiatives | OHIO University Libraries | Alden 333 | Athens, Ohio | 740.597.2527 | she/her |
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<a href="https://media.library.ohio.edu/"><span style="color:black">Digital Archives</span></a> |
<a href="https://archivesspace.ohio.edu/"><span style="color:black">Archives Finding Aids</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Institute <institute-bounces@lists.uvic.ca>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Lingjia Zhao<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 28, 2026 10:09 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> institute@lists.uvic.ca<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] [DHSI] </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">🆕</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> New article on AI and sensitive colonial archives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Apologies for cross-posting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">We are pleased to share our new open-access article:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;color:black">👉</span><span style="color:black">
<b>Should sensitive archival images be shown? The case for applying AI to colonial archives</b><br>
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<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-026-09552-x" title="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-026-09552-x" id="OWA24c700f3-9e91-0334-f5a0-fd0dd5a5d281">
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-026-09552-x</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Published in<b> <i>Archival Science</i></b>, the article explores how archives should manage colonial photographs depicting violence, nudity, coercion and other sensitive subjects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Co-authored by Lise Jaillant, Matthew Kidd and Lingjia Zhao, the study draws on fifteen interviews with professionals working across GLAM institutions in the UK and continental Europe.
It also includes a computer-vision test involving twenty colonial photographs from the Archives Nationales d’Outre-mer in France, allowing us to consider both the potential and the limitations of AI.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>AI can help archives to:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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identify potentially sensitive material at scale<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
improve metadata and description<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
make difficult collections easier to discover<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">However, automated tools remain limited, particularly when the meaning of an image depends on historical and cultural context.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">We therefore propose
<b>a practical framework </b>combining:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;color:black">🤖</span><span style="color:black"> automated triage<br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;color:black">👤</span><span style="color:black"> human review and curatorial judgement<br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;color:black">🏷️</span><span style="color:black"> clear labelling of machine-generated descriptions<br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;color:black">⚠️</span><span style="color:black"> warnings, restrictions and takedown procedures<br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;color:black">🤝</span><span style="color:black"> consultation and co-governance with source communities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">The central argument is that AI can support responsible access, but archivists and source communities must retain authority over what is made visible, how it is described and when access
restrictions are needed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">This research forms part of
<b>GENIAC: Generative Artificial Intelligence for Archival Images of the Colonial Period</b>, funded by the British Academy. The project explores how AI can support responsible access to colonial images from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century,
working with source communities from formerly colonised countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Citation:</b><br>
Jaillant, L., Kidd, M. & Zhao, L. Should sensitive archival images be shown? The case for applying AI to colonial archives.
<i>Arch Sci</i> <b>26</b>, 36 (2026). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-026-09552-x" title="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-026-09552-x" id="OWA44f7b5d7-79b6-ed6b-baab-4b0dccc5b019">
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-026-09552-x</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;color:black">💬</span><span style="color:black"> We welcome perspectives from colleagues working with colonial collections, archival practice, digital humanities
and responsible AI.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Best wishes,<br>
GENIAC Research Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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