Anniesotm
@anniesotm.bsky.social
Reposted by Anniesotm
The sheer recalcitrance of diverse materials to the homogenizing process required both by digitization and processing by means of AI means one thing: the digitization is not the archive.
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
On Exactitude in Science; Or, No, Full Digitization of Every Archive Is Not the Point — Sonja Drimmer
In 1946, Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Cesares published a short story called “Del Rigor en la Ciencia” (“On Exactitude in Science”) The story, which you can read in the original magazine context ...
sonjadrimmer.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The sheer recalcitrance of diverse materials to the homogenizing process required both by digitization and processing by means of AI means one thing: the digitization is not the archive.
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
Reposted by Anniesotm
"This document outlines the reasons why we don’t currently use AI in archival processes – including archival appraisal, acquisition, arrangement and description (processing), digital preservation, and access – as well as how we support our user communities who want to employ AI..." (via Nate Hill)
AI Use in Our Archival Processes
Statement on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in archival processes at the Rockefeller Archive Center.
docs.rockarch.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
"This document outlines the reasons why we don’t currently use AI in archival processes – including archival appraisal, acquisition, arrangement and description (processing), digital preservation, and access – as well as how we support our user communities who want to employ AI..." (via Nate Hill)
Reposted by Anniesotm
To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.
December 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.