Dormant Digital Collections, AI Triage: Lessons from the Islam West Africa Collection and Beyond

Very glad to give a talk for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienforschung (DGA) later today on "Dormant Digital Collections, AI Triage: Lessons from the Islam West Africa Collection and Beyond." The lecture is part of the DGA roundtable series on Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in regional studies, hosted at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin and online via Zoom, with Dr Max Kramer moderating.

Where Arlette Farge located the "allure" of the archive in the slow, tactile encounter with the document, AI can offer a pragmatic complement: rapid triage of the ever-growing personal collections of scans that scholars accumulate. This talk is an invitation to experiment, turning dormant digital collections into active research instruments.

More details and the Zoom link are available on the DGA event page.