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SUMMARY:Automating the Archive: From Card Catalogues to Computer Bots - Dr
  Siddharth Soni (Cambridge Digital Humanities)
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CONTACT:Dr Stefanie Ullmann
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\nOne of the enduring fantasies of technological autom
 ation is a 'total' archive. An archive without gaps or fissues or lacunae.
  An Archive that is intelligent\, self-aware\, even sentient. One that can
  write its own story\, without historians and scholars dawdling in its dus
 ty entrails. From card catalogues to computer bots\, this talk explores th
 e extractive\, military\, and colonial genealogies of the idea of automati
 on within the archive.\n\nBIO\nDr Siddharth Soni is the Isaac Newton Trust
  Fellow at Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) and the Faculty of English\,
  University of Cambridge
LOCATION:1 Newnham Terrace\, Darwin College
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