[AI Summary]: A new research project “Envisioning Critical Futures for Archives as Data” led by Emily Maemura (University of Illinois) and Jessica Lapp (University of Toronto) explores ethical and fair approaches to collecting, manipulating, and interpreting sociocultural data from historical records, with workshops planned for Fall 2025 (Toronto) and Spring 2026 (Champaign) engaging researchers in critical archival studies, data science, digital curation, and digital humanities.
- Principal Investigators: Emily Maemura (University of Illinois), Jessica Lapp (University of Toronto)
- Funding: University of Illinois System and University of Toronto partnership
- Focus: Fair and ethical consideration of creators and people represented in historical records when working with archives as data
- Workshops: Toronto (Fall 2025), Champaign (Spring 2026)
- Target Participants: Researchers in critical archival studies, data science, library/archives special collections, digital curation and preservation, digital humanities