The Council on Library and Information Resources has an intriguing short blog post on the work of Jane Winters who is professor of Digital Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
She briefly explains some of the reasons why she is positive about the collaboration between AI and human expertise which can “transform how we interact with the past, opening new doors for research, accessibility, and preservation.” Her post links us out to some striking examples of interactive models of linkage between different disciplines and institutions with a deep investment in humanities research. One example is the Heritage Connector which gives us a large “web of links between the Science Museum Group, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and Wikidata structured into an open knowledge graph, which allowed us to visualize and explore collections in entirely new ways.” See the index.
This is fascinating work and one point had never occured to me before. Apparently this field of activity is commonly referred to as GLAMS (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) and I immediately bonded with the term, which is slap bang in the centre of interest for Exact Editions. Archives are certainly a major concern, but the whole GLAMS field is a delightful focus.
Exact Editions brings its own technical expertise to the field, with a capacity to link magazine issues, or even magazine archives, together in Reading Rooms which allow users to browse magazines collectively and search them as a group.
Here is a link that will run until 23 October 2025 and give preview and thumbnail layouts of the 13 titles currently in the Fashion and Textile Collection available to Institutional subscribers at Exact Editions. Reading Rooms can be set up for varying depths of preview and this one gives free access to the opening pages of each issue in the large archive.
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