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Are Users of Digital Archives Ready for the AI Era? Obstacles to the Application of Computational Research Methods and New Opportunities (2024)
Journal Article
Jaillant, L., & Aske, K. (2024). Are Users of Digital Archives Ready for the AI Era? Obstacles to the Application of Computational Research Methods and New Opportunities. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 16(4), Article 87. https://doi.org/10.11

 Innovative technologies are improving the accessibility, preservation and searchability of born-digital and digitised records. In particular, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is opening new opportunities for archivists and researchers. However, the expe... Read More about Are Users of Digital Archives Ready for the AI Era? Obstacles to the Application of Computational Research Methods and New Opportunities.

(Mis)matching Metadata: Improving Accessibility in Digital Visual Archives through the EyCon Project (2023)
Journal Article
Aske, K., & Giardinetti, M. (2023). (Mis)matching Metadata: Improving Accessibility in Digital Visual Archives through the EyCon Project. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 16(4), Article 76. https://doi.org/10.1145/3594726

Discussing the current AHRC/LABEX-funded EyCon (Early Conflict Photography 1890-1918 and Visual AI) project, this article considers potentially problematic metadata and how it affects the accessibility of digital visual archives. The authors delibera... Read More about (Mis)matching Metadata: Improving Accessibility in Digital Visual Archives through the EyCon Project.

‘Such gaudy tulips raised from dung’: Cosmetics, Disease and Morality in Jonathan Swift's Dressing‐Room Poetry (2017)
Journal Article
Aske, K. (2017). ‘Such gaudy tulips raised from dung’: Cosmetics, Disease and Morality in Jonathan Swift's Dressing‐Room Poetry. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 40(4), 503-517. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12509

While enabling women to embody fashionable trends and the idealised beauty of the period, cosmetics also offered a disguise, not only for ugly and ageing faces but for disease also. Taking examples from advertisements, cosmetic commentaries and Jonat... Read More about ‘Such gaudy tulips raised from dung’: Cosmetics, Disease and Morality in Jonathan Swift's Dressing‐Room Poetry.