Category: Reflective Practice Series

By Alessandro Meregaglia / This post will discuss the current limitations of using AI to search digitized and born digital primary sources––like newspaper databases, the Wayback Machine, and archival digital collections. I will show examples of how AI fails to identify information in these primary sources, even though they are available online and navigable by humans. My goal is to equip other primary source instructors with a general overview so they, in turn, can inform their students, who might be tempted to think AI is an exhaustive tool for primary source .

By Kyle Neill / In late 2018, the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point Archives began curating a collection of video games. After recognizing an on-campus need for video game related research and receiving much support from faculty and students, archivists successfully presented a proposal to begin development of our Historic Video Game Collection.