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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Janet M. Carleton | Digital Initiatives Coordinator | Digital Initiatives | Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Preservation & Digital Initiatives
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> Corey Cherrington via Society of American Archivists <Mail@ConnectedCommunity.org>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 26, 2026 5:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Carleton, Janet (she/her) <carleton@ohio.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [SAA announcements]: Upcoming Event (Dec. 4): AI and Archival Description with Anthony Cheney Guzmán<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:.75pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hi everyone, The Description Section is excited to welcome Anthony Cheney Guzmán for a live session building on "The Double Erasure
Problem,"...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://connect.archivists.org/profile?UserKey=983491d4-4a8a-45c9-a153-4dae98175fad">Corey Cherrington</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">SAA
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">AI and Archival Description: A Conversation with Anthony Cheney Guzmán on the Double Erasure Problem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">When:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Friday, December 4, 2:30 p.m. ET / 1:30p.m. CT / 11:30 a.m. PT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Register:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/k2yITVYGToiEXuHJOnUmyA#/registration" title="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/k2yITVYGToiEXuHJOnUmyA#/registration">us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/k2yITVYGToiEXuHJOnUmyA#/...</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Pre-Reading:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> "The Double Erasure Problem" on
<i>Descriptive Notes</i>: <a href="https://saadescription.wordpress.com/2026/08/04/the-double-erasure-problem/" title="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsaadescription.wordpress.com%2F2026%2F08%2F04%2Fthe-double-erasure-problem%2F&data=05%7C02%7Ccorey.cherrington%40gatesventures.com%7C5934fcd712074d6adbb008df310890cc%7Ce38fdd56dd644d67b048e">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Details: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In his
<i>Descriptive Notes</i> 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, <span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">
"What remains undigitized cannot be scraped. What cannot be scraped cannot be learned."</span> 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
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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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Corey Cherrington<br>
Assistant Archivist<br>
Gates Archive<br>
Seattle, WA<br>
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