British Museum and British Library have had an exhibition overbooking problem for a long time. I’ve spent too much time shuffling in a queue in overbooked and poorly designed exhibs! There must’ve been endless logistical conversations around the particular challenges of the tapestry, surely?

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I haven't even addressed the time and funding it requires to even do this kind of work and the fact that some archives have policies that limit how much material you can consult per day. (10/13)

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Can HTR and OCR which is now often aided by AI help with this? Some, but that's for another post. Because now you have to extract the data from the documents and put it somewhere and make some really important decisions on what to input in your dataset based on what you hope to do with it (9/13)

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Sure you can! Do you always want to? No, because when you leave the archive you have to read a bunch of often poorly written, crumbling documents in 16th and 17th century Italian or Latin which requires years of training and practice even for native speakers (8/13)

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And this is even before you examine the folders and documents and make choices based on your expertise on what is worth taking picture of and what is not based on your research questions. Can you take pictures of every single document in a folder of 1000? (7/13)

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