Editors’ Summary: This roundtable, hosted by Open Knowledge Foundation in collaboration with the Association for the Advancement of Social Sciences in Guatemala, fills a key gap in digital archives by focusing on how archives and museums in the Global South or regions experiencing political or social instability can effectively engage with digital or AI tools to preserve their materials. This roundtable includes scholars working on archives and histories in Central America, South Asia, and South America. Some topics discussed include how to balance between the accessibility benefits of showcasing historical documents freely on the internet and the potential harms that open-access sources are vulnerable to AI scraping. This roundtable will address many issues that museum, archive, and library practitioners might face amid an age of digitization.
Editors’ Choice: Roundtable Recap: How to digitise a physical archive to work strategically with AI?
