Drawing on collaborative research at The National Archives, including through the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s programme Towards a National Collection, this talk explores computational archival science, artificial intelligence, citizen involvement, and post-custodial approaches to challenge doom-laden technological determinism, and how together we might combine ‘hand-curated’ and ‘at-scale’ approaches to our shared cultural heritage to ensure automation works ‘for the people’.

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